Ruth 1:12

New American Bible - revised edition

Go, my daughters, for I am too old to marry again. Even if I had any such hope, or if tonight I had a husband and were to bear sons,

Cross References

Genesis 17:17

Abraham fell face down and laughed as he said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at ninety?”

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 feared that Shelah also might die like his brothers. So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.

1 Timothy 5:9

Let a widow be enrolled if she is not less than sixty years old, married only once,

Ruth 1:11

Naomi replied, “Go back, my daughters. Why come with me? Have I other sons in my womb who could become your husbands?

Ruth 1:13

would you wait for them and deprive yourselves of husbands until those sons grew up? No, my daughters, my lot is too bitter for you, because the Lord has extended his hand against me.”