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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Ruth 1 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/ruth/1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/ruth/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > Ruth 1</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../judges/21.htm" title="Judges 21">◄</a> Ruth 1 <a href="../ruth/2.htm" title="Ruth 2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/ruth/1-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Naomi Becomes a Widow<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../1_timothy/5.htm#3">1 Timothy 5:3–16</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And it will be in the days of the judging of the judges, and there will be a famine in the land. And a man from the house of bread of Judah will go to sojourn in the field of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And the name of the man Elimelech, and the name of his wife, Naomi, and the name of his two sons, Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites from the house of bread of Judah. And they will come to the field of Moab and be there. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And Elimelech will die, the husband of Naomi; and she will be left, and her two sons. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And they will take to them wives from the Moabitesses; the name of the one, Orpah, and the name of the second, Ruth: and they will dwell there about ten years. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And Mahlon and chilion, also they two, will die; and the woman will be left of her two children and of her husband.<p> <A name="7"></a><p class="hdg">Ruth’s Loyalty to Naomi<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And she will arise and her daughters-in-law, and she will turn back from the field of Moab: for she heard in the field of Moab that Jehovah reviewed his people to give bread to them. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And she will go forth from the place where she was there, and her two daughters-in-law with her; and they will go in the way to turn back 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 will say to her two daughters-in-law, Go, turn back each to the house of her mother: Jehovah will do mercy with you according as ye did with the dead, and with me. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Jehovah will give to you, and find ye rest, each in the house of her husband And she will kiss to them, and they will 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 will say to her, But with thee we will turn back to thy people. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And Naomi will say, Turn back, my daughters: wherefore will ye go with me? are yet to me sons in my bowels, and they were 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, therefore; for I grew old from being for a husband. If I said, There is hope to me, also I was this night to a husband, and also I bare sons; <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Will ye wait for them till they shall grow? Will remain shut up for them not to be for a husband? Nay, my daughters, for it is bitter to me greatly for you, that the hand of Jehovah will go forth against me.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And they will lift up their voice and weep yet. And Orpah will kiss to her mother-in-law; and Ruth adhered to her.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And she will say, Behold, thy sister-in-law turned back to her people, and to her gods: turn thou back after thy sister-in-law. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And Ruth will say, Thou shalt not urge upon me to forsake thee, to turn back from after thee: for where thou shalt go, I will go; and where thou shalt lodge, I will lodge: thy people my people, and thy God my God: <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Where thou shalt die, I will die, and there will I be buried: thus will Jehovah do to me, and thus will he add, for death shall separate between me and between thee. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And she will see that she strengthening herself to go with her, and she will cease to speak to her.<p> <A name="20"></a><p class="hdg">The Return to Bethlehem<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And they two will go till they came to the house of bread. And it will be as they came to the house of bread, and all the city will be moved at them, and they will say, Is this Naomi? <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And she will say to them, Ye shall not call to me Naomi; call to me, Mara: for the Almighty made bitter to me greatly. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>I went away full, and Jehovah turned me back empty; wherefore will ye call to me Naomi, and Jehovah humbled me, and the Almighty did evil to me?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And Naomi will turn back, and Ruth the Moabitess her daughter-in-law, with her, turned back from the field of Moab: and they came to the house of bread in the beginning of the harvest of barley.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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