4 who married Moabite women, Orpah and Ruth. About ten years later
5 Mahlon and Chilion also died, and Naomi was left all alone, without husband or sons.
6 Some time later Naomi heard that the Lord had blessed his people by giving them good crops; so she got ready to leave Moab with her daughters-in-law.
7 They started out together to go back to Judah, but on the way
8 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.
9 And may the Lord make it possible for each of you to marry again and have a home.”So Naomi kissed them good-bye. But they started crying
10 and said to her, “No! We will go with you to your people.”