Ruth 1:2Open English Bible (US)
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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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.
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Elimelech died, and Naomi was left with her two sons,
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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.