8 在路上,拿俄米卻對兩個媳婦說:“你們回娘家去吧。你們對自己的丈夫和我都那麼好,願上主賞賜你們;9又願上主賜福給你們,使你們再嫁,好有個依靠。”她說完了,就跟她們吻別,三人都放聲大哭。
10 她們說:“不,我們要跟你一起回你族人那裏。”
11 拿俄米卻說:“你們為甚麼還要跟着我呢? 我還能再生兒子, 等他們長大後作你們的丈夫嗎? 12不,我的女兒啊,回你們父母家去吧,我已經老得不能再嫁人了。就算今晚我結婚生子,那又能怎樣呢? 13你們能等着他們長大,而不嫁給別人嗎?女兒啊,當然不能!我比你們苦多了,上主可是親自揮拳擊打我啊。”
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8But on the way, Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back to your mothers’ homes. Andmay the Lord reward you for your kindness to your husbands and to me. 9May the Lord bless you with the security of another marriage.” Then she kissed them good-bye, and they all broke down and wept.
10“No,” they said. “We want to go with you to your people.”
11But Naomi replied, “Why should you go on with me? Can I still give birth to other sons who could grow up to be your husbands? 12No, my daughters, return to your parents’ homes, for I am too old to marry again. And even if it were possible, and I were to get married tonight and bear sons, then what? 13Would you wait for them to grow up and refuse to marry someone else? No, of course not, my daughters! Things are far more bitter for me than for you, because the Lord himself has raised his fist against me.”
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