Ruth 1:11 BSB — MannaFest

Ruth 1:11

But Naomi replied, “Return home, my daughters. Why would you go with me? Are there still sons in my womb to become your husbands?

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? have I yet sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?

KJV

And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?

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Commentary

1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

See marginal references and notes. The Levirate law probably existed among the Moabites, and in Israel extended beyond the brother in the strict sense, and applied to the nearest relations, since Boaz was only the kinsman of Elimelech Rth 3:12.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַתֹּ֤אמֶר	va.To.mer	and she said	H559 →
נָעֳמִי֙	no.'o.Mi	Naomi	H5281 →
שֹׁ֣בְנָה	Shoe.nah	go back	H7725 →
בְנֹתַ֔י	ve.no.Tai	O daughters my	H1323 →
לָ֥מָּה	La.mah	<to> why?	H4100 →
תֵלַ֖כְנָה	te.Lakh.nah	will you go	H1980 →
עִמִּ֑י	'i.Mi	with me	H5973 →
הַֽעֽוֹד־	ha.'od-	¿ still	H5750 →
לִ֤י	li	[belong] to <the> me
בָנִים֙	va.Nim	[do] sons	H1121 →
בְּֽמֵעַ֔י	be.me.'Ai	in inward parts my	H4578 →
וְהָי֥וּ	ve.ha.Yu	and they will become	H1961 →
לָכֶ֖ם	la.Khem	of you
לַאֲנָשִֽׁים׃	la.'a.na.Shim	<into> husbands	H582 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H5281noomiNaomi21×

The walk

The walk7

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Deuteronomy 25:5
When brothers dwell together and one of them dies without a son, the widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty…
leads to
- Luke 20:28
  “Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man is to marry his brother’s widow and raise up offspring for him.
- Matthew 22:24
  “Teacher,” they said, “Moses declared that if a man dies without having children, his brother is to marry the widow and raise up offspring for him.
- Mark 12:19
  “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man is to marry his brother’s widow and raise up offspring for him.
- Genesis 38:8–9
  Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law and raise up offspring for your brother.”
- Ruth 1:12–13
  Return home, my daughters. Go on, for I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was hope for me to have a husband tonight and to bear sons,
Through
Genesis 38:11
Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went…
leads to
- Leviticus 22:13
  But if a priest’s daughter with no children becomes widowed or divorced and returns to her father’s house, she may share her father’s food as in her youth. But no outsider may share it.
- Ruth 1:11–13
  But Naomi replied, “Return home, my daughters. Why would you go with me? Are there still sons in my womb to become your husbands?

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