- In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land, and a man from Bethlehem in Judah, together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while in the country of Moab.
- The man's name was Elimelech, his wife's name Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem, Judah. And they went to Moab and lived there.
- Now Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died, and she was left with her two sons.
- They married Moabite women, one named Orpah and the other Ruth. After they had lived there about ten years,
- both Mahlon and Kilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband.
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- 當士師秉政的時候、國中遭遇饑荒、在猶大伯利恆有一個人帶著妻子和兩個兒子往摩押地去寄居.
- 這人名叫以利米勒、他的妻名叫拿俄米、他兩個兒子、一個名叫瑪倫、一個名叫基連、都是猶大伯利恆的以法他人、他們到了摩押地就住在那裡。
- 後來拿俄米的丈夫以利米勒死了、剩下婦人和他兩個兒子。
- 這兩個兒子娶了摩押女子為妻、一個名叫俄珥巴、一個名叫路得、在那裡住了約有十年。
- 瑪倫和基連二人也死了、剩下拿俄米沒有丈夫、也沒有兒子。
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