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Ruth 1:15

And she says, “Behold, your sister-in-law has turned back to her people, and to her god, turn back after your sister-in-law.”

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law.

In Context

14And they lift up their voice, and weep again, and Orpah kisses her mother-in-law, and Ruth has cleaved to her.

16And Ruth says, “Do not urge me to leave you—to turn back from after you; for to where you go I go, and where you lodge I lodge; your people [is] my people, and your God my God.

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Cross References

Numbers 10:30And he says to him, “I do not go; but I go to my land and to my family.”

Joshua 24:19And Joshua says to the people, “You are not able to serve YHWH, for He [is] a most holy God; He [is] a zealous God; He does not bear with your transgression and with your sins.

2 Samuel 15:19And the king says to Ittai the Gittite, “Why do you go—you also—with us? Return and abide with the king, for you [are] a stranger, and also an exile, you—to your place.

Psalms 36:3The words of his mouth [are] iniquity and deceit, || He ceased to act prudently—to do good.

Zephaniah 1:6And those removing from after YHWH, || And who have not sought YHWH, nor implored Him.”

Luke 14:26“If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be My disciple;

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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