9The LORD grant you that ye 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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Then Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?
And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him,
And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.
Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him.
And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-18)See here, I. The good affection Naomi bore to the land of Israel, Ruth 1:6. Though she could not stay in it while the famine lasted, she would not stay out of it when the famine ceased. Though the country of Moab had afforded her shelter and supply in a time of need, yet she did not intend it should be her rest for ever; no land should be that but the holy land, in which the sanctuary of God was,…
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