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New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Ruth 1
⁴ They took for themselves Moabite women as wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. And they lived there about ten years.
⁵ Then both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and the woman was bereft of her two children and her husband.
⁶ Then she arose with her daughters-in-law that she might return from the land of Moab, for she had heard in the land of Moab that the Lord had visited His people in giving them food.
⁷ So she departed from the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her; and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah.
⁸ And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go, return each of you to her mother’s house. May the Lord deal kindly with you as you have dealt with the dead and with me.
⁹ May the Lord grant that you may find rest, each in the house of her husband." Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices and wept.
¹⁰ And they said to her, "No, but we will surely return with you to your people."
¹¹ But Naomi said, "Return, my daughters. Why should you go with me? Have I yet sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?
¹² Return, my daughters! Go, for I am too old to have a husband. If I said I have hope, if I should even have a husband tonight and also bear sons,
¹³ would you therefore wait until they were grown? Would you therefore refrain from marrying? No, my daughters; for it is harder for me than for you, for the hand of the Lord has gone forth against me."
¹⁴ And they lifted up their voices and wept again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.