Ruth 1:15
And Noemi said to her: Behold thy kinswoman is returned to her people, and to her gods, go thou with her.
The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- cui dixit Noëmi : En reversa est cognata tua ad populum suum, et ad deos suos, vade cum ea.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπεν Νωεμεὶν πρὸς Ῥούθ Ἰδοὺ ἀνέστρεψεν σύννυμφός σου πρὸς λαὸν αὐτῆς καὶ πρὸς τοὺς θεοὺς αὐτῆς· ἐπιστράφητι δὴ καὶ σὺ ὀπίσω τῆς συννύμφου σου.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַתֹּ֗אמֶר הִנֵּה֙ שָׁ֣בָה יְבִמְתֵּ֔ךְ אֶל עַמָּ֖הּ וְאֶל אֱלֹהֶ֑יהָ שׁ֖וּבִי אַחֲרֵ֥י יְבִמְתֵּֽךְ
Haydock's commentary
To her gods, &c. Noemi did not mean to persuade Ruth to return to the false gods she had formerly worshipped; but by this manner of speech, insinuated to her, that if she would go with her, she must renounce her false gods, and turn to the Lord, the God of Israel. (Challoner)
She wished to try her constancy. (Salien)
Most infer from this passage, that Orpha was never converted, or that she relapsed.
Her gods, may indeed be rendered in the singular, "god." But what god was peculiar to her and the Moabites, but Chamos? (Calmet)
Noemi might well fear that Orpha would give way to the superstition of her countrymen, to which she had been addicted, even though she might have made profession of serving the true God, while she lived with her. (Haydock).
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.