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Ruth 1
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Elimelech and His Family Move to Moab

1Long ago, in the days before Israel had a king, there was a famine in the land.H3117H8199H8199H7458H776H376H1035H3063H3212H1481H7704H4124H802H8147H1121
2So a man named Elimelech, who belonged to the clan of Ephrath and who lived in Bethlehem in Judah, went with his wife Naomi and their two sons Mahlon and Chilion to live for a while in the country of Moab. While they were living there,H8034H376H458H8034H802H5281H8034H8147H1121H4248H3630H673H1035H3063H935H7704H4124
3Elimelech died, and Naomi was left alone with her two sons,H458H5281H376H4191H7604H8147H1121
4who married Moabite women, Orpah and Ruth. About ten years laterH5375H802H802H4125H8034H259H6204H8034H8145H7327H3427H6235H8141
5Mahlon and Chilion also died, and Naomi was left all alone, without husband or sons.H4248H3630H4191H8147H802H7604H8147H3206H376

Naomi and Ruth Return to Bethlehem

6Some time later Naomi heard that the LORD had blessed his people by giving them good crops; so she got ready to leave Moab with her daughters-in-law.H6965H3618H7725H7704H4124H8085H7704H4124H3068H6485H5971H5414H3899
7They started out together to go back to Judah, but on the wayH3318H4725H8147H3618H3212H1870H7725H776H3063
8she said to them, "Go back home and stay with your mothers. May the LORD be as good to you as you have been to me and to those who have died.H5281H559H8147H3618H3212H7725H802H517H1004H3068H6213H2617H6213H4191
9And may the LORD make it possible for each of you to marry again and have a home." So Naomi kissed them good-bye. But they started cryingH3068H5414H4672H4496H802H1004H376H5401H5375H6963H1058
10and said to her, "No! We will go with you to your people."H559H7725H5971
11"You must go back, my daughters," Naomi answered. "Why do you want to come with me? Do you think I could have sons again for you to marry?H5281H559H7725H1323H3212H1121H4578H582
12Go back home, for I am too old to get married again. Even if I thought there was still hope, and so got married tonight and had sons,H7725H1323H3212H2204H376H559H3426H8615H376H3915H3205H1121
13would you wait until they had grown up? Would this keep you from marrying someone else? No, my daughters, you know that's impossible. The LORD has turned against me, and I feel very sorry for you."H7663H3860H1431H5702H3860H376H1323H4843H3966H3027H3068H3318
14Again they started crying. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law good-bye and went back home, but Ruth held on to her.H5375H6963H1058H6204H5401H2545H7327H1692
15So Naomi said to her, "Ruth, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her god. Go back home with her."H559H2994H7725H5971H430H7725H310H2994
16But Ruth answered, "Don't ask me to leave you! Let me go with you. Wherever you go, I will go; wherever you live, I will live. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.H7327H559H6293H5800H7725H310H3212H3212H3885H3885H5971H5971H430H430
17Wherever you die, I will die, and that is where I will be buried. May the LORD's worst punishment come upon me if I let anything but death separate me from you!"H4191H4191H6912H3068H6213H3254H4194H6504
18When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she said nothing more.H7200H553H3212H2308H1696
19They went on until they came to Bethlehem. When they arrived, the whole town became excited, and the women there exclaimed, "Is this really Naomi?"H8147H3212H935H1035H935H1035H5892H1949H559H5281
20"Don't call me Naomi," she answered; "call me Marah, because Almighty God has made my life bitter.H559H7121H5281H7121H4755H7706H3966H4843
21When I left here, I had plenty, but the LORD has brought me back without a thing. Why call me Naomi when the LORD Almighty has condemned me and sent me trouble?"H1980H4392H3068H7725H7387H7121H5281H3068H6030H7706H7489
22This, then, was how Naomi came back from Moab with Ruth, her Moabite daughter-in-law. When they arrived in Bethlehem, the barley harvest was just beginning.H5281H7725H7327H4125H3618H7725H7704H4124H935H1035H8462H8184H7105


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