Ruth 1
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Ruth 1:8-9

8Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you to your mother’s home. May the LORD show you loving devotion,1 as you have shown to your dead and to me. 9May the LORD enable each of you to find rest in the home of your new husband.”

And she kissed them as they wept aloud

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Notes

  1. 1. Ruth 1:8 Forms of the Hebrew chesed are translated here and in most cases throughout the Scriptures as loving devotion; the range of meaning includes love, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, and mercy, as well as loyalty to a covenant. ↩

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