We're going to be in Ruth Chapter 1. Would you raise your hand if you don't have a Bible?

Somebody will bring one around to you. Mike's on it, thanks Mike.

And as you get there, would you stand for the reading of God's word?

We'll be in Ruth Chapter 1. Ruth 1 6 through 22.

When Naomi heard in Moab that the Lord had come to the aid of his people by providing food for them,

she and her daughters and law prepared to return home from there.

With her two daughters and law, she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road that would take them back to the land of Judah.

Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law,

go back each of you to your mother's home.

May the Lord show you kindness as you have shown kindness

to your dead husbands and to me.

May the Lord grant that each of you

will find rest in the home of another husband.

Then she kissed them goodbye and they wept aloud

and said to her, we will go back with you to your people.

But Naomi said, return home, my daughters.

Why would you come with me?

Am I going to have any more sons

who could become your husbands?

Return home my daughters.

I'm too old to have another husband,

even if I thought there was still hope for me,

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