Verse 12
Ruth 1:12
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
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Return again, my daughters, and go your ways: for I am now spent with age, and not fit for wedlock. Although I might conceive this night, and bear children,
Original Language Text
hebrew
שֹׁ֤בְנָה בְנֹתַ/י֙ לֵ֔כְןָ כִּ֥י זָקַ֖נְתִּי מִ/הְי֣וֹת לְ/אִ֑ישׁ כִּ֤י אָמַ֨רְתִּי֙ יֶשׁ לִ֣/י תִקְוָ֔ה גַּ֣ם הָיִ֤יתִי הַ/לַּ֨יְלָה֙ לְ/אִ֔ישׁ וְ/גַ֖ם יָלַ֥דְתִּי בָנִֽים
English Translation
Return, my daughters, go, for I am too old to have a husband; for I said, 'I have hope, even if I were to have a husband tonight and also bear sons.'
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In the days of one of the judges, when the judges ruled, there came a famine in the land. And a cert...
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He was named Elimelech, and his wife, Noemi: and his two sons, the one Mahalon, and the other Chelio...
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And Elimelech the husband of Noemi died: and she remained with her sons.
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And they took wives of the women of Moab, of which one was called Orpha, and the other Ruth. And the...
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And they both died, to wit, Mahalon and Chelion: and the woman was left alone, having lost both her...
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And she arose to go from the land of Moab to her own country with both her daughters in law: for she...
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Wherefore she went forth out of the place of her sojournment, with both her daughters in law: and be...
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She said to them: Go ye home to your mothers: the Lord deal mercifully with you, as you have dealt w...
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May he grant you to find rest in the houses of the husbands which you shall take. And she kissed the...
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And to say: We will go on with thee to thy people.
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But she answered them: Return, my daughters: why come ye with me? have I any more sons in my womb, t...
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Return again, my daughters, and go your ways: for I am now spent with age, and not fit for wedlock....
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If you would wait till they were grown up, and come to man's estate, you would be old women before y...
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And they lifted up their voice, and began to weep again: Orpha kissed her mother in law and returned...
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And Noemi said to her: Behold thy kinswoman is returned to her people, and to her gods, go thou with...
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She answered: Be not against me, to desire that I should leave thee and depart: for whithersoever th...
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The land that shall receive thee dying, in the same will I die: and there will I be buried. The Lord...
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Then Noemi, seeing that Ruth was steadfastly determined to go with her, would not be against it, nor...
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So Noemi came with Ruth the Moabitess her daughter in law, from the land of her sojournment: and ret...
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