Ruth 1:13-15

Good News Translation

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. ¹⁵ So Naomi said to her, “Ruth, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her god.^[c] Go back home with her.”