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Elimelech Moves His Family to Moab
In the days when the judges ruled in Israel, a severe famine came upon the land. So a man from Bethlehem in Judah left his home and went to live in the country of Moab, taking his wife and two sons with him.
In the days when the judges ruled in Israel, a severe famine came upon the land. So a man from Bethlehem in Judah left his home and went to live in the country of Moab, taking his wife and two sons with him.
The man’s name was Elimelek, his wife’s name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem, Judah. And they went to Moab and lived there.
The man’s name was Elimelech, and his wife was Naomi. Their two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in the land of Judah. And when they reached Moab, they settled there.
Now Elimelek, Naomi’s husband, died, and she was left with her two sons.
Then Elimelech died, and Naomi was left with her two sons.
They married Moabite women, one named Orpah and the other Ruth. After they had lived there about ten years,
The two sons married Moabite women. One married a woman named Orpah, and the other a woman named Ruth. But about ten years later,
both Mahlon and Kilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband.
both Mahlon and Kilion died. This left Naomi alone, without her two sons or her husband.
Naomi and Ruth Return to Bethlehem
When Naomi heard in Moab that the Lord had come to the aid of his people by providing food for them, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to return home from there.
When Naomi heard in Moab that the Lord had come to the aid of his people by providing food for them, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to return home from there.
Naomi and Ruth Return
Then Naomi heard in Moab that the LORD had blessed his people in Judah by giving them good crops again. So Naomi and her daughters-in-law got ready to leave Moab to return to her homeland.
With her two daughters-in-law she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road that would take them back to the land of Judah.
With her two daughters-in-law she set out from the place where she had been living, and they took the road that would lead them back to Judah.
Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you, to your mother’s home. May the Lord show you kindness, as you have shown kindness to your dead husbands and to me.
But on the way, Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back to your mothers’ homes. And may the LORD reward you for your kindness to your husbands and to me.
May the Lord grant that each of you will find rest in the home of another husband.”
Then she kissed them goodbye and they wept aloud
Then she kissed them goodbye and they wept aloud
May the LORD bless you with the security of another marriage.” Then she kissed them good-bye, and they all broke down and wept.
and said to her, “We will go back with you to your people.”
“No,” they said. “We want to go with you to your people.”
But Naomi said, “Return home, my daughters. Why would you come with me? Am I going to have any more sons, who could become your husbands?
But Naomi replied, “Why should you go on with me? Can I still give birth to other sons who could grow up to be your husbands?
Return home, my daughters; I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was still hope for me — even if I had a husband tonight and then gave birth to sons —
No, my daughters, return to your parents’ homes, for I am too old to marry again. And even if it were possible, and I were to get married tonight and bear sons, then what?
would you wait until they grew up? Would you remain unmarried for them? No, my daughters. It is more bitter for me than for you, because the Lord’s hand has turned against me!”
Would you wait for them to grow up and refuse to marry someone else? No, of course not, my daughters! Things are far more bitter for me than for you, because the LORD himself has raised his fist against me.”
At this they wept aloud again. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.
And again they wept together, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law good-bye. But Ruth clung tightly to Naomi.
“Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Go back with her.”
“Look,” Naomi said to her, “your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods. You should do the same.”
But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.
But Ruth replied, “Don’t ask me to leave you and turn back. Wherever you go, I will go; wherever you live, I will live. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.
Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me.”
Wherever you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD punish me severely if I allow anything but death to separate us!”
When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.
When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she said nothing more.
So the two women went on until they came to Bethlehem. When they arrived in Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women exclaimed, “Can this be Naomi?”
So the two of them continued on their journey. When they came to Bethlehem, the entire town was excited by their arrival. “Is it really Naomi?” the women asked.
So Naomi returned from Moab accompanied by Ruth the Moabite, her daughter-in-law, arriving in Bethlehem as the barley harvest was beginning.
So Naomi returned from Moab, accompanied by her daughter-in-law Ruth, the young Moabite woman. They arrived in Bethlehem in late spring, at the beginning of the barley harvest.