3. Now, Naomi’s husband Elimelech died, and she was left alone with her two sons.
4. Each son married a woman from Moab. One son married a woman named Orpah, and the other son married a woman named Ruth. They lived there for about ten years.
5. Then both Mahlon and Chilion died as well. So Naomi was left alone, without her two sons or her husband.
6. Naomi and her daughters-in-law started on the way back from the country of Moab. (While they were still in Moab she heard that the Lord had come to help his people and give them food.
7. So she left the place where she had been living, and her two daughters-in-law went with her.) They began to walk back along the road to the territory of Judah.
8. Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back! Each of you should go back to your mother’s home. May the Lord be as kind to you as you were to me and to our loved ones who have died.
9. May the Lord repay each of you so that you may find security in a home with a husband.”When she kissed them goodbye, they began to cry loudly.
10. They said to her, “We are going back with you to your people.”
11. But Naomi said, “Go back, my daughters. Why should you go with me? Do I have any more sons in my womb who could be your husbands?