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Ruth 1:15

She said, “Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law.”

World English Bible Catholic

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

14They lifted up their voices and wept again; then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth stayed with her.

16Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God.

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Cross References

Numbers 10:30He said to him, “I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my relatives.”

Joshua 24:19Joshua said to the people, “You can’t serve the LORD, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins.

2 Samuel 15:19Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why do you also go with us? Return, and stay with the king; for you are a foreigner and also an exile. Return to your own place.

Psalms 36:3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

Zephaniah 1:6those who have turned back from following the LORD, and those who haven’t sought the LORD nor inquired after him.

Luke 14:26“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t 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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