Lux Domini
And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother’s house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with 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 1:6-8.

Glossary

Naomi Person
The lovable; my delight, the wife of Elimelech, and mother of Mahlon and Chilion, and mother-in-law of Ruth (1:2, 20, 21; 2:1).