Quotes about Family
who took Moabite women as their wives, one named Orpah and the other named Ruth. And after they had lived in Moab about ten years,
— Ruth 1:4
both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and without her husband.
— Ruth 1:5
When Naomi heard in Moab that the LORD had attended to His people by providing them with food, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to leave the land of Moab.
— Ruth 1:6
Accompanied by her two daughters-in-law, she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road leading back to the land of Judah.
— Ruth 1:7
Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you to your mother’s home. May the LORD show you loving devotion, as you have shown to your dead and to me.
— Ruth 1:8
May the LORD enable each of you to find rest in the home of your new husband.” And she kissed them as they wept aloud
— Ruth 1:9
But Naomi replied, “Return home, my daughters. Why would you go with me? Are there still sons in my womb to become your husbands?
— Ruth 1:11
Again they wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.
— Ruth 1:14
“Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her gods; follow her back home.”
— Ruth 1:15
So Naomi returned from the land of Moab with her daughter-in-law Ruth the Moabitess. And they arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.
— Ruth 1:22
Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by the LORD, who has not withdrawn His kindness from the living or the dead.” Naomi continued, “The man is a close relative. He is one of our kinsman-redeemers.”
— Ruth 2:20
One day Ruth’s mother-in-law Naomi said to her, “My daughter, should I not seek a resting place for you, that it may be well with you?
— Ruth 3:1