⁴ These took Moabite wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. They lived there about ten years,

⁵ and Salmon the father of Boaz by ^(A)Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse,

Solomon Turns from the Lord

11 Now ^(A)King Solomon loved many foreign women, along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women, ² from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the people of Israel, ^(B)“You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love.

^3 (A)“No Ammonite or Moabite may enter the assembly of the Lord. Even to the tenth generation, none of them may enter the assembly of the Lord forever,

^3 (A)You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons,