4. So her sons married Moabite women. (One was named Orpah and the other Ruth.) And they continued to live there about ten years.
5. Then Naomi’s two sons, Mahlon and Kilion, also died. So the woman was left all alone – bereaved of her two children as well as her husband!
6. So she decided to return home from the region of Moab, accompanied by her daughters-in-law, because while she was living in Moab she had heard that the Lord had shown concern for his people, reversing the famine by providing abundant crops.
7. Now as she and her two daughters-in-law began to leave the place where she had been living to return to the land of Judah,
8. Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Listen to me! Each of you should return to your mother’s home!May the Lord show youthe same kind of devotion that you have shown to your deceased husbands and to me!
9. May the Lord enable each of you to find security in the home of a new husband!” Then she kissed them goodbye and they wept loudly.
10. But they said to her, “No! We will return with you to your people.”
11. But Naomi replied, “Go back home, my daughters! There is no reason for you to return to Judah with me! I am no longer capable of giving birth to sons who might become your husbands!