Ruth 1:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Each to her mother's house; not that they wanted fathers, Ruth 2:11, but because daughters used to converse more frequently with their mothers, and to be most endeared to them, and to dwell in the same apartments with them, which then were distinct from those parts of the house where the men dwelt. With the dead; with my sons, your husbands, whilst 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.