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21 I went away full,
    but the Lord has brought me back empty;
why call me Naomi
    when the Lord has dealt harshly with[a] me,
    and the Almighty[b] has brought calamity upon me?’

22 So Naomi returned together with Ruth the Moabite, her daughter-in-law, who came back with her from the country of Moab. They came to Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 1:21 Or has testified against
  2. Ruth 1:21 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai

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