Then [a]both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and the woman was bereft of her two children and her husband.

Then she arose with her daughters-in-law that she might return from the land of Moab, for she had heard in the land of Moab that the Lord had (A)visited His people in (B)giving them food. So she departed from the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her; and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah.

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 1:5 Lit both of them

both Mahlon and Kilion(A) also died,(B) and Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband.

Naomi and Ruth Return to Bethlehem

When Naomi heard in Moab(C) that the Lord had come to the aid of his people(D) by providing food(E) for them, she and her daughters-in-law(F) prepared to return home from there. With her two daughters-in-law she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road that would take them back to the land of Judah.

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