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and they come into the fields of Moab, and are there. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And Elimelech husband of Naomi dies, and she is left, she and her two sons; <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>and they take to them wives, Moabitesses: the name of the first [is] Orpah, and the name of the second Ruth; and they dwell there about ten years. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And they die also, both of them—Mahlon and Chilion—and the woman is left of her two children and of her husband.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And she rises, she and her daughters-in-law, and turns back from the fields of Moab, for she has heard in the fields of Moab that God has looked after His people—to give to them bread. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And she goes out from the place where she has been, and her two daughters-in-law with her, and they go in the way to return to the land of Judah. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And Naomi says to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return, each to the house of her mother; YHWH does with you kindness as you have done with the dead, and with me; <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>YHWH grants to you, and you find rest each in the house of her husband”; and she kisses them, and they lift up their voice and weep. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And they say to her, “Surely with you we go back to your people.” <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And Naomi says, “Turn back, my daughters; why do you go with me? Are there yet to me sons in my bowels that they have been to you for husbands? <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Turn back, my daughters, go, for I am too aged to be to a husband; though I had said, There is for me hope, also, I have been tonight to a husband, and also I have borne sons: <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>do you wait for them until they grow up? Do you shut yourselves up for them, not to be to a husband? No, my daughters, for more bitter to me than to you, for the hand of YHWH has gone out against me.”<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And they lift up their voice, and weep again, and Orpah kisses her mother-in-law, and Ruth has cleaved to her.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And she says, “Behold, your sister-in-law has turned back to her people, and to her god, turn back after your sister-in-law.” <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And Ruth says, “Do not urge me to leave you—to turn back from after you; for to where you go I go, and where you lodge I lodge; your people [is] my people, and your God my God. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Where you die I die, and there I am buried; thus does YHWH to me, and thus He adds—for death itself parts between me and you.” <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And she sees that she is strengthening herself to go with her, and she ceases to speak to her;<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>and the two of them go until their coming to Beth-Lehem; and it comes to pass at their coming to Beth-Lehem, that all the city is moved at them, and they say, “Is this Naomi?” <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And she says to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly to me, <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>I went out full, and YHWH has brought me back empty, why do you call me Naomi, and YHWH has testified against me, and the Almighty has done evil to me?”<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And Naomi turns back, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who has turned back from the fields of Moab, and they have come to Beth-Lehem at the commencement of barley-harvest. <p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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