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In the days when the judges judged, there came a famine in the land. And a man went from Bethlehem of Judah to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his sons.
The man's name was Abimelech, his wife's name Noemin, and the names of his two sons Maalon and Chelaion; Ephrathites from Bethlehem of Judah. They came to the country of Moab and remained there.
Then she arose with her two daughters-in-law and returned from the country of Moab, for they had heard in the country of Moab that the Lord had visited his people to give them bread.
And Noemin said to her daughters-in-law, "Go now, return each of you to her mother's house. May the Lord deal mercifully with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.
would you therefore wait until they were grown? Would you therefore refrain from having a husband? No, my daughters; for it is far more bitter for me than for you, because the hand of the Lord has gone out against me."
But Ruth said, "Do not press me to leave you or to 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.
So the two of them went on until they came to Bethlehem. And when they came to Bethlehem, the whole city was stirred because of them, and they said, "Is this Noemin?"
I went out full, and the Lord has brought me back empty. Why then call me Noemin, when the Lord has humbled me and the Sufficient One has afflicted me?"
So Noemin returned, and Ruth the Moabitess her daughter-in-law with her, returning out of the country of Moab; and they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.