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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. Then [a]both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and the woman was left without her two children and her husband.

Ruth Is Determined to Go with Naomi

Then she arose with her daughters-in-law and returned from the fields of Moab, for she had heard in the fields of Moab that [b]Yahweh had (A)visited His people to (B)give them [c]food.

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 1:5 Lit both of them
  2. Ruth 1:6 The personal covenant name of God, a form of I AM WHO I AM, cf. Ex 3:14-15
  3. Ruth 1:6 Lit bread, cf. Bethlehem (house of bread), Ruth 1:19