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13 would you be willing to wait for them to grow up? Would you restrain yourselves from remarrying?[a] No, my daughters, my life is much too bitter for you to share,[b] because the Lord’s hand has turned against me.’(A) 14 Again they wept loudly, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her. 15 Naomi said, ‘Look, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods.(B) Follow your sister-in-law.’

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  1. 1:13 Litmarrying a man
  2. 1:13 Lit daughters, for more bitter to me than you