⁷ With her two daughters-in-law she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road that would take them back to the land of Judah.

⁸ Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you, to your mother’s home.^(A) May the Lord show you kindness,^(B) as you have shown kindness to your dead husbands^(C) and to me. ⁹ May the Lord grant that each of you will find rest^(D) in the home of another husband.”

Then she kissed^(E) them goodbye and they wept aloud^(F)