Luke 11:41Open English Bible (Commonwealth)

Ruth 1:1

In the time when the judges ruled, there was once a famine in the land. A man from Bethlehem in Judah took his wife and two sons to live in the territory of Moab.

Ruth 1:6

So she set out with her daughters-in-law to return from the land of Moab, for she had heard that the Lord had remembered his people and given them food.

Ruth 1:19

So they journeyed on until they came to Bethlehem. Their arrival stirred the whole town, and the women said, ‘Can this be Naomi?’

Ruth 1:20

‘Do not call me Naomi,’ she said to them, ‘call me Mara, for the Almighty has given me a bitter lot.

Ruth 3:11

My daughter, have no fear. I will do for you all that you ask, for the whole town knows that you are a virtuous woman.