OLD TESTAMENT

Ruth 1:9

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May the LORD 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 voices, and wept.

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Verse 9. Take. She proposes marriage to them, as a state more suitable to their years, ( Bible.) and wishes that they may experience none of its solicitudes, (1 Corinthians 7:28,) but be constantly protected by their husbands. Widows are exposed to many difficulties. Menochius.

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