She said, “Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people, and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law.”
Parallel translations
- KJV And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law.
- BSB “Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her gods; follow her back home.”
- NKJV And she said, “Look, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law.”
- NASB Then she said, “Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her gods; return after your sister-in-law.”
- NLT “Look,” Naomi said to her, “your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods. You should do the same.”
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- Zeph 1:6those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.
- Judg 11:24Won’t you possess that which Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So whoever Yahweh our God has dispossessed from before us, them will we possess.
- 2 Kgs 2:2Elijah said to Elisha, “Please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me as far as Bethel.” Elisha said, “As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.
- Ps 125:5But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.
- Josh 24:15If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”
- 1 Jn 2:19They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.
- Ps 36:3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
- Josh 24:19Joshua said to the people, “You can’t serve Yahweh, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins.
- Matt 13:20–21What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it;
- 2 Sam 15:19–20Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why do you also go with us? Return, and stay with the king; for you are a foreigner, and also an exile. Return to your own place.
- Luke 14:26–33“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.
- Luke 24:28They came near to the village, where they were going, and he acted like he would go further.
- Heb 10:38But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
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