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And they took[a] for themselves Moabite wives. The name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other was Ruth. And they lived there about ten years. But both[b] Mahlon and Kilion died, and the woman was left without her two sons and without her husband.

Naomi Returns with Ruth

And she got up, she and her daughters-in-law, and returned from the countryside of Moab, because she had heard in the countryside of Moab that Yahweh had come to the aid of[c] his people to give food to them.

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 1:4 Literally “they lifted up”
  2. Ruth 1:5 Literally “the two of them”
  3. Ruth 1:6 Literally “had considered”