Ruth 1:12

Bible in Basic English 1965

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,

Cross References

Genesis 17:17

Then Abraham went down on his face, and laughing, said in his heart, May a man a hundred years old have a child? will Sarah, at ninety years old, give birth?

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.

1 Timothy 5:9

Let no woman be numbered among the widows who is under sixty years old, and only if she has been the wife of one man,

Ruth 1:11

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

Ruth 1:13

Would you keep yourselves till they were old enough? would you keep from having husbands for them? No, my daughters; but I am very sad for you that the hand of the Lord is against me.