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21 I went away full, but Yahweh brought me back empty-handed! Why call me Naomi when Yahweh has testified against me[a] and Shaddai[b] has brought calamity upon me?” 22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabite her daughter-in-law with her, returning from the countryside of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of the harvest of barley.

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 1:21 Literally “and Yahweh answered against me”
  2. Ruth 1:21 Often translated “the Almighty”