5 both Mahlon and Chilion died also, and the woman was left with neither her two boys nor her husband.
6 She and her daughters-in-law then prepared to go back from the plateau of Moab because word had reached her there that the Lord had seen to his people’s needs and given them food.
7 She and her two daughters-in-law left the place where they had been living. On the road back to the land of Judah,
8 Naomi said to her daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you to your mother’s house. May the Lord show you the same kindness as you have shown to the deceased and to me.
9 May the Lord guide each of you to find a husband and a home in which you will be at rest.” She kissed them good-bye, but they wept aloud,
10 crying, “No! We will go back with you, to your people.”
11 Naomi replied, “Go back, my daughters. Why come with me? Have I other sons in my womb who could become your husbands?