“No,” he said to his father, “look at all the years I have been serving you, without ever once disobeying you, and yet you have never given me even a young goat, so that I might have a merrymaking with my friends.
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His name was Elimelech and his wife’s was Naomi, and his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. After they had been living in Moab for some time,
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who married Moabite women named Orpah and Ruth. After they had lived there about ten years,
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Mahlon and Chilion both died, and Naomi was left alone, without husband or sons.
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Naomi said to her daughters-in-law, ‘Go, return both of you to the home of your mother. May the Lord be kind to you as you have been kind to the dead and to me.
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‘Look,’ said Naomi, ‘your sister-in-law is going back to her own people and to her own gods. Go along with her!’