Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Ruth 1:14
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Again they wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.
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And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.
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They lifted up their voices and wept again; then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth stayed with her.
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ASVAmerican Standard Version
And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clave unto her.
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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB
Ruth 1
12 Return home, my daughters. Go on, for I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was hope for me to have a husband tonight and to bear sons,
13 would you wait for them to grow up? Would you refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, it is much more bitter for me than for you, because the hand of the LORD has gone out against me.”
14 Again they wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.
15 “Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her gods; follow her back home.”
16 But Ruth replied: “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.
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