3. And Elimeleḵ, husband of Na‛omi, died. And she was left with her two sons.
4. And they took wives of the women of Mo’aḇ, the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth. And they dwelt there about ten years.
5. And Maḥlon and Kilyon also died, both of them, so the woman was bereaved of her two sons and of her husband.
6. And she rose up, with her daughters-in-law, and returned from the fields of Mo’aḇ, for she had heard in the fields of Mo’aḇ that יהוה had visited His people in giving them bread.
7. And she left the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her. And they went on the way to return to the land of Yehuḏah.
8. And Na‛omi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each to her mother’s house. יהוה show kindness to you, as you have shown to the dead and to me.
9. “יהוה grant that you find rest, each in the house of her husband.” Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices and wept.
10. And they said to her, “No, we shall go back with you to your people.”
11. But Na‛omi said, “Go back, my daughters, why go with me? Have I still sons in my womb, that they should become your husbands?
12. “Go back, my daughters, go your way, for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say I have expectancy, even if I should have a husband tonight and should also bear sons,
13. would you wait for them till they were grown? Would you shut yourselves up, not to have a husband? No, my daughters, for it is much more bitter for me than for you, because the hand of יהוה has gone out against me!”
14. And they lifted up their voices and wept again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.