12 Return, my daughters! Go, for I am too old to have a husband. If I said I have hope, if I should even have a husband tonight and also bear sons, 13 would you therefore wait until they were grown? Would you therefore refrain from marrying? No, my daughters; for it is (a)harder for me than for you, for (A)the hand of the Lord has gone forth against me.”

Footnotes:

a. Ruth 1:13: ['Lit ', more bitter]

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