Ruth 1:12

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Return home, my daughters. Go on, for I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was still hope for me to have a husband tonight and to bear sons,

Cross References

Genesis 17:17

Abraham fell face down. Then he laughed  and said to himself, ‘Can a child be born to a hundred-year-old man? Can Sarah, a ninety-year-old woman, give birth? ’

1 Timothy 5:9

No widow is to be enrolled on the list for support unless she is at least sixty years old, has been the wife of one husband,

Genesis 38:11

Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, ‘Remain a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.’  For he thought, ‘He might die too, like his brothers.’ So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.

Ruth 1:11

But Naomi replied, ‘Return home, my daughters. Why do you want to go with me? Am I able to have any more sons who could become your husbands?

Ruth 1:13

would you be willing to wait for them to grow up? Would you restrain yourselves from remarrying?  No, my daughters, my life is much too bitter for you to share,  because the Lord’s hand has turned against me.’