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13 would you therefore wait until they were grown? Would you therefore refrain from marrying?[a] No, my daughters, for it is far more bitter to me than to you. For the hand of Yahweh has gone out against me.” 14 And they lifted up their voices and cried again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her. 15 And she said, “Look, your sister-in-law has returned to her people and to her gods. Return after your sister-in-law too.”

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  1. Ruth 1:13 Literally “Would you therefore let yourself be hindered to not belong to a man?”