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Ruth 1 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Elimelech’s Family Goes to Moab
Naomi and Ruth Return from Moab

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:1 - Now it came to pass, in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem, Judah, went to dwell in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:2 - The name of the man was Elimelech, the name of his wife was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion—Ephrathites of Bethlehem, Judah. And they went to the country of Moab and remained there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:3 - Then Elimelech, Naomi’s husband, died; and she was left, and her two sons.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:4 - Now they took wives of the women of Moab: the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth. And they dwelt there about ten years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:5 - Then both Mahlon and Chilion also died; so the woman survived her two sons and her husband.
Naomi Returns with Ruth

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:6 - Then she arose with her daughters-in-law that she might return from the country of Moab, for she had heard in the country of Moab that the LORD had visited His people by giving them bread.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:7 - Therefore she went out 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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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:8 - And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each to her mother’s house. The LORD deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:9 - “The LORD grant that you may find rest, each in the house of her husband.” So she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices and wept.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:10 - And they said to her, “Surely we will return with you to your people.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:11 - But Naomi said, “Turn back, my daughters; why will you go with me? Are there still sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:12 - “Turn back, my daughters, go—for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say I have hope, if I should have a husband tonight and should also bear sons,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:13 - “would you wait for them till they were grown? Would you restrain yourselves from having husbands? No, my daughters; for it grieves me very much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD has gone out against me!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:14 - Then they lifted up their voices and wept again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:15 - And she said, “Look, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:16 - But Ruth said:

“Entreat me not to leave you,
Or to turn back from following after you;
For wherever you go, I will go;
And wherever you lodge, I will lodge;
Your people shall be my people,
And your God, my God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:17 - Where you die, I will die,
And there will I be buried.
The LORD do so to me, and more also,
If anything but death parts you and me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:18 - When she saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped speaking to her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:19 - Now the two of them went until they came to Bethlehem. And it happened, when they had come to Bethlehem, that all the city was excited because of them; and the women said, “Is this Naomi?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:20 - But she said to them, “Do not call me Naomi;[fn] call me Mara,[fn] for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:21 - “I went out full, and the LORD has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:22 - So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess her daughter-in-law with her, who returned from the country of Moab. Now they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest.
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Literally Pleasant
Literally Bitter
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Ruth Chapter 1 — Additional Translations:

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