Lux Domini
Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD is gone out against me.

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Interpretation

Naomi began to think of returning, after the death of her two sons. When death comes into a family, it ought to reform what is amiss there.

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This thought runs through Ruth 1:12-16.