Psalms 16:3Open 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 1:5

Mahlon and Chilion both died, and Naomi was left alone, without husband or sons.

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 2:11

Boaz replied, ‘I have heard what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, and how you left your father and mother and your native land to come to a people that you did not know before.

Ruth 4:3

Then he said to the near relative, ‘Naomi, who has come back from the country of Moab, is offering for sale the piece of land which belonged to our relative Elimelech,