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Then Naomi's sons married women from Moab. Mahlon married a woman called Ruth. Kilion married a woman called Orpah. After they had all lived in Moab for about ten years, both Mahlon and Kilion died. Now Naomi was completely alone, without her husband or her sons.[a]

Naomi received news from Judah that the Lord had helped his people.[b] There was now enough food in Judah again. So Naomi decided to leave Moab and return to Judah with Ruth and Orpah.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:5 When the women had no husbands, they could no longer work on their land. They needed help from the men in their families.
  2. 1:6 When we write Lord like this, it is a special name for God. Sometimes people write it as ‘Yahweh’, or as ‘Jehovah’. It is his own name that he told Moses. See Exodus 3:14. It means ‘I am who I am’. This shows that God has always been there and he always will be there.