Ruth 1:12

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

You must go back home, because I am too old to marry again. Even if I got married tonight and later had more sons,

Cross References

Genesis 17:17

Abraham bowed with his face to the ground and thought, “I am almost a hundred years old. How can I become a father? And Sarah is ninety. How can she have a child?” So he started laughing.

Genesis 38:11

Judah did not want the same thing to happen to his son Shelah, and he told Tamar, “Go home to your father and live there as a widow until my son Shelah is grown up.” So Tamar went to live with her father.

1 Timothy 5:9

For a widow to be put on the list of widows, she must be at least sixty years old, and she must have been faithful in marriage.

Ruth 1:11

But she replied, “My daughters, why don't you return home? What good will it do you to go with me? Do you think I could have more sons for you to marry?

Ruth 1:13

would you wait for them to become old enough to marry? No, my daughters! Life is harder for me than it is for you, because the LORD has turned against me.”