Ruth 1:1-5

Naomi’s Husband and Sons Die

Now it happened in the days ^awhen the judges judged, that there was ^ba famine in the land. And a certain man ^cof Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the fields of Moab ¹with his wife and his two sons. 2 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 ^acame to the fields of Moab and remained there. 3 Then Elimelech, Naomi’s husband, died; and she was left with her two sons. 4 They took for themselves Moabite women as wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. And they lived there about ten years. 5 Then ¹both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and the woman was left without her two children and her husband.