Ruth 3:1
Good News Translation
Some time later Naomi said to Ruth, "I must find a husband for you, so that you will have a home of your own.

New Revised Standard Version
Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, I need to seek some security for you, so that it may be well with you.

Contemporary English Version
One day, Naomi said to Ruth: It's time I found you a husband, who will give you a home and take care of you.

New American Bible
Naomi said to her, “My daughter, should I not be seeking a pleasing home for you?

Douay-Rheims Bible
After she was returned to her mother in law, Noemi said to her: My daughter, I will seek rest for thee, and will provide that it may be well with thee.

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After she was returned to her mother in law, Noemi said to her: My daughter, I will seek rest for thee, and will provide that it may be well with thee.

shall I not

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,

1 Corinthians 7:36 But if any man think that he seemeth dishonoured with regard to his virgin, for that she is above the age, and it must so be: let him do what he will. He sinneth not if she marry.

1 Timothy 5:8,14 But if any man have not care of his own and especially of those of his house, he hath denied the faith and is worse than an infidel. . . .

may be

Genesis 40:14 Only remember me when it shall be well with thee, and do me this kindness: to put Pharao in mind to take me out of this prison:

Deuteronomy 4:40 Keep his precepts and commandments, which I command thee: that it may be well with thee, and thy children after thee, and thou mayst remain a long time upon the land, which the Lord thy God will give thee.

Psalm 128:2 For thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee.

Jeremiah 22:15,16 Shalt thou reign, because thou comparest thyself to the cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and it was then well with him? . . .

Context
Naomi Instructs Ruth
1After she was returned to her mother in law, Noemi said to her: My daughter, I will seek rest for thee, and will provide that it may be well with thee.2This Booz, with whose maids thou wast joined in the field, is our near kinsman, and behold this night he winnoweth barley in the threshingfloor.…
Cross References
Ruth 2:23
So she kept close to the maids of Booz: and continued to glean with them, till all the barley and the wheat were laid up in the barns.

Ruth 3:2
This Booz, with whose maids thou wast joined in the field, is our near kinsman, and behold this night he winnoweth barley in the threshingfloor.

Ruth 2:23
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