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Ruth 1:13 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD is gone out "
Ruth 1:13
Verse in Context
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And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?
Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;
Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD is gone out
And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave
And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law.
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Ruth 1:1
"Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons."
Ruth 1:2
"And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehemjudah. And they came into the country of Moab,"
Ruth 1:3
"And Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and her two sons."
Ruth 1:4
"And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years."
Ruth 1:5
"And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband."
Ruth 1:6
"Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread."
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