Ruth 1:11

Bible in Basic English 1965

But Naomi said, Go back, my daughters; why will you come with me? Have I more sons in my body, to become your husbands?

Cross References

Genesis 38:11

Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, Go back to your father's house and keep yourself as a widow till my son Shelah becomes a man: for he had in his mind the thought that death might come to him as it had come to his brothers. So Tamar went back to her father's house.

Genesis 38:9

But Onan, seeing that the offspring would not be his, went in to his brother's wife, but let his seed go on to the earth, so that he might not get offspring for his brother.

Deuteronomy 25:5

If brothers are living together and one of them, at his death, has no son, the wife of the dead man is not to be married outside the family to another man: let her husband's brother go in to her and make her his wife, doing as it is right for a brother-in-law to do.

Ruth 1:10

And they said to her, No, but we will go back with you to your people.

Ruth 1:12

Go back, my daughters, and go on your way; I am so old now that I may not have another husband. If I said, I have hopes, if I had a husband tonight, and might have sons,