Ruth 1:1-10 ▼

1 And it came to pass in the days of the judging of the judges, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man went from Bethlehem in Judah to dwell in the fields of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.

2 And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. And they went out into the fields of Moab and were there.

3 And Elimelech the husband of Naomi died, and she was left, and her two sons.

4 And they took for them wives of the Moabitesses: The name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the second was Ruth. And they dwelt there about ten years.

5 And the two of them also died, Mahlon and Chilion. And the woman was left from her two sons and from her husband.

6 And she rose, she and her daughters-in-law, and she returned from the fields of Moab, for she had heard in a field of Moab that YHWH had attended to His people, to give bread to them.

7 And she went out from the place where she was there, and her two daughters-in-law with her, and they went in the way to return to the land of Judah.

8 And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, turn back, each woman to the house of her mother. May YHWH do with you? loving devotion, as you? have done with the dead and with me.

9 May YHWH give to you?, and may you find rest, each woman in the house of her husband.” And she kissed them, and they lifted up their voice, and they wept.

10 And they said to her, “Surely we will return with you to your people.”