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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 they1 dwelt there about ten years.  
5 Then both Mahlon and Chilion also died; so the woman survived her two sons and her husband.

Naomi Returns with Ruth

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 avisited His people by bgiving them bread.  
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.
8 And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, a“Go, return each to her mother’s house. bThe Lord deal kindly with you, as you have dealt cwith the dead and with me.  
9 The Lord grant that you may find arest, each in the house of her husband.” So she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices and wept.  
10 And they said to her, “Surely we will return with you to your people.”
11 But Naomi said, “Turn back, my daughters; why will you go with me? Are there still sons in my womb, athat they may be your husbands?  
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,
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 athe hand of the Lord has gone out against me!”  
14 Then they lifted up their voices and wept again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth aclung to her.  
15 And she said, “Look, your sister-in-law has gone back to aher people and to her gods; breturn after your sister-in-law.”  
16 But Ruth said:
a“Entreat1 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;
bYour people shall be my people,
And your God, my God. 
17 Where you die, I will die,
And there will I be buried.
aThe Lord do so to me, and more also,
If anything but death parts you and me.”  
18 aWhen she saw that she1 was determined to go with her, she stopped speaking to her.  
19 Now the two of them went until they came to Bethlehem. And it happened, when they had come to Bethlehem, that aall the city was excited because of them; and the women said, b“Is this Naomi?”  
20 But she said to them, “Do not call me1 Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.  
Book Notes:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Book Notes

Ruth

RUTH is properly a supplement to the preceding book, to which, in fact, it was appended in the ancient Jewish canon. Although it relates an episode belonging to the time of the Judges, its precise date is unknown. It appears certain, however, that it could not have been written prior to the time of Samuel (see Ruth 4:17-22), who is generally supposed to have been its author; and this opinion, in addition to other reasons on which it rests, is confirmed by Ruth 4:7, where it is evident that the history was not compiled till long after the transactions recorded. The inspiration and canonical authority of the book is attested by the fact of Ruth's name being inserted by Matthew in the Saviour's genealogy [Matthew 1:5].

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