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Now it came
about in the days
when the judges
governed,
that there was a famine
in the land
.
And a certain man
of Bethlehem
in Judah
went
to sojourn
in the land
of Moab
with his wife
and his two
sons.
2
The name
of the man
was Elimelech,
and the name
of his wife,
Naomi;
and the names
of his two
sons
were Mahlon
and Chilion,
Ephrathites
of Bethlehem
in Judah.
Now they entered
the land
of Moab
and remained
there.
3
Then Elimelech,
Naomi's
husband,
died;
and she was left
with her two
sons.
4
They took
for themselves
Moabite
women as wives;
the name
of the one
was Orpah
and
the name
of the other
Ruth.
And they lived
there
about ten
years.
5
Then both
Mahlon
and Chilion
also
died,
and the woman
was bereft
of her two
children
and her husband.
6
Then she arose
with her daughters-in-law
that she might return
from the land
of Moab
,
for she had heard
in the land
of Moab
that the LORD
had visited
His people
in giving
them food.
7
So she departed
from the place
where
she was, and her two
daughters-in-law
with her; and they went
on the way
to return
to the land
of Judah.
8
And Naomi
said
to her two
daughters-in-law,
"Go,
return
each
of you to her mother's
house.
May the LORD
deal
kindly
with you as you have dealt
with the dead
and with me.
9
"May the LORD
grant
that you may find
rest,
each
in the house
of her husband."
Then she kissed
them, and they lifted
up their voices
and wept.
10
And they said
to her, "No, but we will surely
return
with you to your people."
11
But Naomi
said,
"Return,
my daughters.
Why
should you go
with me? Have I yet
sons
in my womb,
that they may be your husbands?
12
"Return,
my daughters!
Go,
for I am
too
old
to
have
a husband
.
If
I said
I
have
hope,
if I should even
have
a husband
tonight
and also
bear
sons,
13
would you therefore
wait
until
they were grown?
Would you therefore
refrain
from marrying?
No,
my daughters;
for it is harder
for me than
for you, for the hand
of the LORD
has gone forth
against me."
14
And they lifted
up their voices
and wept
again;
and Orpah
kissed
her mother-in-law,
but Ruth
clung
to her.
15
Then she said,
"Behold,
your sister-in-law
has gone
back
to her people
and her gods;
return
after
your sister-in-law
."
16
But Ruth
said,
"Do not urge
me to leave
you or turn back
from following
you; for where
you go,
I will go,
and where
you lodge,
I will lodge.
Your people
shall be my people,
and your God,
my God.
17
"Where
you die,
I will die,
and there
I will be buried.
Thus
may the LORD
do
to me, and worse,
if
anything but death
parts
you and me."
18
When she saw
that she was determined
to go
with her, she said
no
more to her.
19
So they both
went
until
they came
to Bethlehem.
And when they had come
to Bethlehem,
all
the city
was stirred
because
of them, and the women said,
"Is this
Naomi?"
20
She said
to them, "Do not
call
me Naomi;
call
me Mara,
for the Almighty
has dealt
very
bitterly
with me.
21
"I went
out full,
but the LORD
has brought me back
empty.
Why
do you call
me Naomi,
since the LORD
has witnessed
against me and the Almighty
has afflicted
me?"
22
So Naomi
returned,
and with her Ruth
the Moabitess,
her daughter-in-law,
who returned
from the land
of Moab.
And they came
to Bethlehem
at the beginning
of barley
harvest.
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