15 He shall be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age, for your daughter-in-law who loves you, (A)who is more to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”

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15 He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law,(A) who loves you and who is better to you than seven sons,(B) has given him birth.”

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22 (A)Cast your burden on the Lord,
    and he will sustain you;
(B)he will never permit
    the righteous to be moved.

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22 Cast your cares on the Lord
    and he will sustain you;(A)
he will never let
    the righteous be shaken.(B)

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(A)even to your old age I am he,
    and to gray hairs I will carry you.
I have made, and I will bear;
    I will carry and will save.

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Even to your old age and gray hairs(A)
    I am he,(B) I am he who will sustain you.
I have made you and I will carry you;
    I will sustain(C) you and I will rescue you.

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And Elkanah, her husband, said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? And why do you not eat? And why is your heart sad? (A)Am I not more to you than ten sons?”

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Her husband Elkanah would say to her, “Hannah, why are you weeping? Why don’t you eat? Why are you downhearted? Don’t I mean more to you than ten sons?(A)

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11 But Boaz answered her, (A)“All that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband has been fully told to me, and how you left your father and mother and your native land and came to a people that you did not know before. 12 (B)The Lord repay you for what you have done, and a full reward be given you by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge!”

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11 Boaz replied, “I’ve been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law(A) since the death of your husband(B)—how you left your father and mother and your homeland and came to live with a people you did not know(C) before.(D) 12 May the Lord repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the Lord,(E) the God of Israel,(F) under whose wings(G) you have come to take refuge.(H)

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11 (A)There I will provide for you, for there are yet five years of famine to come, so that you and your household, and all that you have, do not come to poverty.’

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11 I will provide for you there,(A) because five years of famine(B) are still to come. Otherwise you and your household and all who belong to you will become destitute.’(C)

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12 And Joseph (A)provided his father, his brothers, and all his father's household with food, according to the number of their dependents.

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12 Joseph also provided his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with food, according to the number of their children.(A)

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24 A man of many companions may come to ruin,
    but (A)there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

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24 One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin,
    but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.(A)

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16 But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. (A)Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. 17 Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. (B)May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.” 18 (C)And when Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more.

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16 But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you(A) or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go,(B) and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people(C) and your God my God.(D) 17 Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely,(E) if even death separates you and me.”(F) 18 When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.(G)

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