Ruth 1:12-14

Good News Translation

¹² Go back home, for I am too old to get married again. Even if I thought there was still hope, and so got married tonight and had sons, ¹³ would you wait until they had grown up? Would this keep you from marrying someone else? No, my daughters, you know that's impossible. The Lord has turned against me, and I feel very sorry for you.”^[a]

¹⁴ Again they started crying. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law good-bye and went back home,^[b] but Ruth held on to her.