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<h2 id="passage_heading">Ruth 1&nbsp;(New International Version)</h2>
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<p><h4>Ruth 1</h4><h5> Naomi and Ruth </h5>&nbsp;<sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-7129">1</sup> In the days when the judges ruled, <sup class='footnote' value='[<a href="#fen-NIV-7129a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen-NIV-7129a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</sup> 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. <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-7130">2</sup> 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. <p />&nbsp;<sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-7131">3</sup> Now Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died, and she was left with her two sons. <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-7132">4</sup> They married Moabite women, one named Orpah and the other Ruth. After they had lived there about ten years, <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-7133">5</sup> both Mahlon and Kilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband. <p />&nbsp;<sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-7134">6</sup> When she heard in Moab that the LORD had come to the aid of his people by providing food for them, Naomi and her daughters-in-law prepared to return home from there. <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-7135">7</sup> With her two daughters-in-law she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road that would take them back to the land of Judah. <p />&nbsp;<sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-7136">8</sup> Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go back, each of you, to your mother's home. May the LORD show kindness to you, as you have shown to your dead and to me. <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-7137">9</sup> May the LORD grant that each of you will find rest in the home of another husband." <br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Then she kissed them and they wept aloud <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-7138">10</sup> and said to her, "We will go back with you to your people." <p />&nbsp;<sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-7139">11</sup> But Naomi said, "Return home, my daughters. Why would you come with me? Am I going to have any more sons, who could become your husbands? <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-7140">12</sup> Return home, my daughters; I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was still hope for me—even if I had a husband tonight and then gave birth to sons- <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-7141">13</sup> would you wait until they grew up? Would you remain unmarried for them? No, my daughters. It is more bitter for me than for you, because the LORD's hand has gone out against me!" <p />&nbsp;<sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-7142">14</sup> At this they wept again. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law good-by, but Ruth clung to her. <p />&nbsp;<sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-7143">15</sup> "Look," said Naomi, "your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Go back with her." <p />&nbsp;<sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-7144">16</sup> But Ruth replied, "Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-7145">17</sup> Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me." <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-7146">18</sup> When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her. <p />&nbsp;<sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-7147">19</sup> So the two women went on until they came to Bethlehem. When they arrived in Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women exclaimed, "Can this be Naomi?" <p />&nbsp;<sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-7148">20</sup> "Don't call me Naomi, <sup class='footnote' value='[<a href="#fen-NIV-7148b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen-NIV-7148b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</sup> " she told them. "Call me Mara, <sup class='footnote' value='[<a href="#fen-NIV-7148c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen-NIV-7148c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</sup> because the Almighty <sup class='footnote' value='[<a href="#fen-NIV-7148d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen-NIV-7148d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</sup> has made my life very bitter. <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-7149">21</sup> I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? The LORD has afflicted <sup class='footnote' value='[<a href="#fen-NIV-7149e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen-NIV-7149e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</sup> me; the Almighty has brought misfortune upon me." <p />&nbsp;<sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-7150">22</sup> So Naomi returned from Moab accompanied by Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, arriving in Bethlehem as the barley harvest was beginning.</p><p /><div class="footnotes"><strong>Footnotes:</strong><ol type="a"><li id="fen-NIV-7129a"><a href="#en-NIV-7129" title="Go to Ruth 1:1">Ruth 1:1</a> Traditionally <i> judged </i> </li>
<li id="fen-NIV-7148b"><a href="#en-NIV-7148" title="Go to Ruth 1:20">Ruth 1:20</a> <i> Naomi </i> means <i> pleasant </i> ; also in verse 21. </li>
<li id="fen-NIV-7148c"><a href="#en-NIV-7148" title="Go to Ruth 1:20">Ruth 1:20</a> <i> Mara </i> means <i> bitter </i> . </li>
<li id="fen-NIV-7148d"><a href="#en-NIV-7148" title="Go to Ruth 1:20">Ruth 1:20</a> Hebrew <i> Shaddai </i> ; also in verse 21 </li>
<li id="fen-NIV-7149e"><a href="#en-NIV-7149" title="Go to Ruth 1:21">Ruth 1:21</a> Or <i> has testified against </i> </li>
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