She said to them, “Each of you go back to your mother’s home.(A) May the Lord show faithful love to you as you have shown to the dead and to me. May the Lord enable each of you to find security(B) in the house of your new husband.” She kissed them, and they wept loudly.

10 “No,” they said to her. “We will go with you to your people.”

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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. 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) 10 and said to her, “We will go back with you to your people.”

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