Ruth 1:8-10

Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go back, each of you, to your mother's home. May the LORD show you kindness, as you have shown kindness to your dead husbands and to me. May the LORD grant that each of you will find rest in the home of another husband." Then she kissed them goodbye and they wept aloud and said to her, "We will go back with you to your people."

 

Go back, each of you, to your mother's home

Genesis 38:11  Judah then said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Live as a widow in your father's household until my son Shelah grows up." For he thought, "He may die too, just like his brothers." So Tamar went to live in her father's household.  

 

May the LORD show you kindness 

Genesis 19:18-19  But Lot said to them, "No, my lords, please! Your servant has found favor in your eyes, and you have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can't flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I'll die."     

Genesis 39:20b-21  But while Joseph was there in the prison, the LORD was with him; he showed him kindness and granted him favor in the eyes of the prison warden.

May the LORD grant that each of you will find rest in the home of another husband 

Ruth 3:1  One day Ruth's mother-in-law Naomi said to her, "My daughter, I must find a home for you, where you will be well provided for."

Then she kissed them goodbye 

Genesis 31:55  Early the next morning Laban kissed his grandchildren and his daughters and blessed them. Then he left and returned home.

1 Samuel 20:41  After the boy had gone, David got up from the south side of the stone and bowed down before Jonathan three times, with his face to the ground. Then they kissed each other and wept together--but David wept the most.

2 Samuel 19:39  So all the people crossed the Jordan, and then the king (David) crossed over. The king kissed Barzillai and bid him farewell, and Barzillai returned to his home.

 

and they wept aloud 

Genesis 27:38  Esau said to his father, "Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me, too, my father!" Then Esau wept aloud.

1 Samuel 30:4  So David and his men wept aloud until they had no strength left to weep.

2 Samuel 15:30  But David continued up the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went; his head was covered and he was barefoot. All the people with him covered their heads too and were weeping as they went up.

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