Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Go back home, for I am too old to get married again. Even if I thought there was still hope, and so got married tonight and had sons, New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Return again, my daughters, and go your ways: for I am now spent with age, and not fit for wedlock. Although I might conceive this night, and bear children, too old Genesis 17:17 Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, saying in his heart: Shall a son, thinkest thou, be born to him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sara that is ninety years old bring forth? 1 Timothy 5:9 Let a widow be chosen of no less than threescore years of age, who hath been the wife of one husband. I should have. Context Ruth's Loyalty to Naomi…11But she answered them: Return, my daughters: why come ye with me? have I any more sons in my womb, that you may hope for husbands of me? 12Return again, my daughters, and go your ways: for I am now spent with age, and not fit for wedlock. Although I might conceive this night, and bear children,13If you would wait till they were grown up, and come to man's estate, you would be old women before you marry. Do not so, my daughters, I beseech you: for I am grieved the more for your distress, and the hand of the Lord is gone out against me.… Cross References Genesis 38:11 Wherefore Juda said to Thamar his daughter-in-law: Remain a widow in thy father's house, till Sela my son grow up: for he was afraid lest he also might die, as his brethren did. She went her way, and dwelt in her father's house. Ruth 1:11 But she answered them: Return, my daughters: why come ye with me? have I any more sons in my womb, that you may hope for husbands of me? Ruth 1:13 If you would wait till they were grown up, and come to man's estate, you would be old women before you marry. Do not so, my daughters, I beseech you: for I am grieved the more for your distress, and the hand of the Lord is gone out against me. Jump to Previous Bear Daughters Home Hope Hopes Husband Night Thought Tonight To-Night Turn WayJump to Next Bear Daughters Home Hope Hopes Husband Night Thought Tonight To-Night Turn WayLinks Ruth 1:12 NIVRuth 1:12 NLT Ruth 1:12 ESV Ruth 1:12 NASB Ruth 1:12 Bible Apps Ruth 1:12 Biblia Paralela Ruth 1:12 Chinese Bible Ruth 1:12 French Bible Ruth 1:12 German Bible Alphabetical: a also am and another bear birth daughters Even for gave Go had have home hope husband I if me my old Return said should sons still then there thought to tonight too was OT History: Ruth 1:12 Turn again my daughters go your way (Ru Rut.) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools |