Ruth 1:8
Good News Translation
she said to them, "Go back home and stay with your mothers. May the LORD be as good to you as you have been to me and to those who have died.

New Revised Standard Version
But Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back each of you to your mother’s house. May the LORD deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.

Contemporary English Version
Naomi said to them, "Don't you want to go back home to your own mothers? You were kind to my husband and sons, and you've always been kind to me. I pray that the LORD will be just as kind to you.

New American Bible
Naomi said to her daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you to your mother’s house. May the LORD show you the same kindness as you have shown to the deceased and to me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
She said to them: Go ye home to your mothers, the Lord deal mercifully with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

She said to them: Go ye home to your mothers, the Lord deal mercifully with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.

Go

Joshua 24:15 But if it seem evil to you to serve the Lord, you have your choice: choose this day that which pleaseth you, whom you would rather serve, whether the gods which your fathers served in Mesopotamia, or the gods of the Amorrhites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house we will serve thee Lord,

Luke 14:25 And there went great multitudes with him. And turning, he said to them:

the Lord

Philippians 4:18,19 But I have all and abound: I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things you sent, an odour of sweetness, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God. . . .

2 Timothy 1:16-18 The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus: because he hath often refreshed me and hath not been ashamed of my chain: . . .

the dead

Ruth 1:5 And they both died, to wit, Mahalon and Chelion: and the woman was left alone, having lost both her sons and her husband.

Ruth 2:20 And Noemi answered her: Blessed be he of the Lord: because the same kindness which he shewed to the living, he hath kept also to the dead. And again she said: The man is our kinsman.

Ephesians 5:22 Let women be subject to their husbands, as to the Lord:

Ephesians 6:2,3 Honour thy father and thy mother, which is the first commandment with a promise: . . .

Colossians 3:18,24 Wives, be subject to your husbands, as it behoveth in the Lord. . . .

Context
Ruth's Loyalty to Naomi
7Wherefore she went forth out of the place of her sojournment, with both her daughters in law: and being now in the way to return into the land of Juda, 8She said to them: Go ye home to your mothers, the Lord deal mercifully with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.9May he grant you to find rest in the houses of the husbands whom you shall take. And she kissed them. And they lifted up their voice, and began to weep,…
Cross References
2 Timothy 1:16
The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus: because he hath often refreshed me and hath not been ashamed of my chain:

Ruth 1:7
Wherefore she went forth out of the place of her sojournment, with both her daughters in law: and being now in the way to return into the land of Juda,

Ruth 1:9
May he grant you to find rest in the houses of the husbands whom you shall take. And she kissed them. And they lifted up their voice, and began to weep,

Ruth 1:7
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