8 Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you to your mother’s home. May the LORD show you loving devotion, as you have shown to your dead and to me. 9 May the LORD enable each of you to find rest in the home of your new husband.” And she kissed them as they wept aloud 10 and said, “Surely we will return with you to your people.”
Ruth 1:8–10
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