RUTH Chapter 1 (GNB)
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Long ago, in the days before Israel had a king, there was a famine in the land.
So a man named Elimelech, who belonged to the clan of
Ephrath and who lived in Bethlehem in Judah, went
with his wife Naomi and their two sons Mahlon and Chilion to live for a while in the country of Moab. While
they were living there,
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(SEE 1:1)
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Elimelech died, and Naomi was left alone with her two
sons,
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who married Moabite women, Orpah and Ruth. About ten years later
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Mahlon and Chilion also
died, and Naomi was left all alone, without husband or sons.
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Some time later Naomi heard that the LORD had blessed his people by giving them
good crops; so she got ready to leave Moab with her daughters-in-law.
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They started out together to go back to Judah, but on the way
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she said to them, "Go back home and stay with your mothers. May the LORD
be as good to you as you have been to me and to those who have died.
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And may the LORD make it possible for each of you to marry again and have a
home." So Naomi kissed them good-bye. But they started crying
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and said to her, "No! We will go with you to your people."
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"You must go back, my daughters," Naomi answered. "Why do you
want to come with me? Do you think I could have sons again for you to marry?
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Go back home, for I am too old to get married again. Even if I thought there
was still hope, and so got married tonight and had sons,
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marrying someone else? No, my daughters, you know that's impossible. The LORD
has turned against me, and I feel very sorry for you."
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Again they started crying. Then Orpah kissed her
mother-in-law good-bye and went back home, but Ruth held on to her.
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So Naomi said to her, "Ruth, your sister-in-law has gone back to her
people and to her god. Go back home with her."
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But Ruth answered, "Don't ask me to leave you! Let me go with you.
Wherever you go, I will go; wherever you live, I will live. Your people will be
my people, and your God will be my God.
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Wherever you die, I will die, and that is where I will be buried. May the
LORD's worst punishment come upon me if I let anything but death
separate me from you!"
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When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she said nothing more.
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They went on until they came to Bethlehem. When they arrived, the whole town became
excited, and the women there exclaimed, "Is this really Naomi?"
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"Don't call me Naomi," she answered; "call me Marah, because Almighty God has made my life bitter.
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When I left here, I had plenty, but the LORD has brought me back without a
thing. Why call me Naomi when the LORD Almighty has condemned me and sent me
trouble?"
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This, then, was how Naomi came back from Moab with Ruth, her Moabite
daughter-in-law. When they arrived in Bethlehem, the barley harvest was just
beginning.
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