Ruth 1:10

10 And they said to her, "[No,] we want to return with you to your people."

Ruth 1:10 Meaning and Commentary

Ruth 1:10

And they said unto her
When they had eased themselves in cries and tears, and had recovered their speech:

surely we will return with thee unto thy people;
to be proselyted, as the Targum; not only to dwell with them, but to worship with them.

Ruth 1:10 In-Context

8 But Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go, each [of you] return to her mother's house. May Yahweh {show kindness to you} [just] as you did with the dead and with me.

9 May Yahweh {grant that you} find a resting place, each [in] the house of her husband." And she kissed them, and they lifted up their voice[s] and cried.

10 And they said to her, "[No,] we want to return with you to your people."

11 And Naomi said, "Return, my daughters. {Why do you still want to go with me}? [Are there] sons {in my womb} that may be husbands for you?

12 Turn back, my daughters! Go, for {I am too old to have a husband}. If I should think there is hope for me, even if I should have a husband [this] night, and even if I should bear sons,