Ruth 1:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

Return each to her mother's house She desires them to accompany her no farther, but to go back to their own home. And it seems it was usual in Moab, as well as in Israel, for widows to dwell with their parents. But she says, mother's, rather than father's house, because daughters used to converse more frequently with their mothers, and to dwell in the same apartments with them, which then were distinct from those parts of the house where the men dwelt. The dead With my sons, your husbands, while they lived.

Ruth 1:8

8 And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother's house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.