Naomi Widowed

Now it came about in the days (A)when the judges [a]governed, that there was (B)a famine in the land. And a certain man (C)of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the land of Moab [b]with his wife and his two sons.

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 1:1 Or judged
  2. Ruth 1:1 Lit he, and

The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife, Naomi; and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem in Judah. Now they (A)entered the land of Moab and remained there.

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