Ruth 1:14

And they lifted up their voices, and wept again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.

In Context

13would ye therefore delay till they were grown? Would ye therefore stay from having husbands? No, my daughters, for it grieves me much for your sakes, for the hand of LORD has gone forth against me.

15And she said, Behold, thy sister-in-law has gone back to her people, and to her god. Return thou after thy sister-in-law.

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Cross References

Genesis 31:55And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. And Laban departed and returned to his place.

Deuteronomy 10:20Thou shall fear LORD thy God. Him thou shall serve, and to him thou shall cling, and by his name thou shall swear.

Ruth 2:11And Boaz answered and said to her, It has been fully shown me all that thou have done to thy mother-in-law since the death of thy husband, and how thou have left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and have com

Proverbs 17:17A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Isaiah 14:1For LORD will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. And the sojourner shall join himself with them, and they shall cling to the house of Jacob.

Matthew 10:37He who loves father or mother above me is not worthy of me, and he who loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me.

Matthew Henry on Ruth 1:7-19

Naomi Returns to Canaan; Naomi and Her Daughters-in-Law; Ruth's Constancy to Naomi. ( b. c. 1312.) 6 Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the Lord had visited his people in giving them bread. 7 Wherefore she went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters in law with her; and they went on the way to return unto the land of Judah. 8 And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to… Read the whole commentary →

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