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Yahweh grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voice, and wept.
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A Selfless Blessing
Commentators highlight Naomi's profound and unselfish love. Despite her own grief and the comfort her daughters-in-law provided, she prioritizes their future well-being. She blesses them, praying that God would grant them "rest"—a term scholars define as the security, peace, and provision found in a new, happy marriage.
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19th Century
Bishop
The Lord grant you ... —A twofold blessing is invoked by Naomi on her daughters-in-law, made the more solemn by the twofo…
Preacher
Separation was painful to them, for they loved their mother-in-law, a most unselfish person who, even though it was a comfort to her to enjoy their…
17th Century
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The Lord grant you Some make a supplement here, the Targum a perfect reward, Aben Ezra an husband; and so Josephus s…
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Naomi began to think of returning after the death of her two sons. When death comes into a family, it should reform what is wrong there. Earth is m…