Ruth 1:5–9

5 both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and the woman was left without her two children and without her husband.

RUTH’S LOYALTY TO NAOMI

6 She and her daughters-in-law set out to return from the territory of Moab, because she had heard in Moab that the Lord had paid attention to his people’s need by providing them food.e 7 She left the place where she had been living, accompanied by her two daughters-in-law, and traveled along the road leading back to the land of Judah.

8 Naomi said to them, “Each of you go back to your mother’s home.f May the Lord show kindness to you as you have shown to the dead and to me. 9 May the Lord grant each of you restg in the house of a new husband.” She kissed them, and they wept loudly.