⁹ May the Lord grant that each of you will find rest^(A) in the home of another husband.”

Then she kissed^(B) them goodbye and they wept aloud^(C)

Ruth and Boaz at the Threshing Floor

3 One day Ruth’s mother-in-law Naomi^(A) said to her, “My daughter, I must find a home^[a](B) for you, where you will be well provided for.

³⁷ They all wept as they embraced him and kissed him.^(A)

¹⁵ And he kissed^(A) all his brothers and wept over them.^(B) Afterward his brothers talked with him.^(C)

¹¹ Then Jacob kissed^(A) Rachel and began to weep aloud.^(B)

²⁷ So he went to him and kissed^(A) him^(B). When Isaac caught the smell of his clothes,^(C) he blessed him and said,