Naomi and Ruth
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- Date: 18 Dec 2005 22:49:38 -0800
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Naomi and Ruth
1 In the days when the judges ruled, [a] 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. 2 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.
3 Now Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died, and she was left with her two
sons. 4 They married Moabite women, one named Orpah and the other Ruth.
After they had lived there about ten years, 5 both Mahlon and Kilion
also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband.
6 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. 7 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.
8 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. 9 May the LORD grant that each of you
will find rest in the home of another husband."
Then she kissed them and they wept aloud 10 and said to her, "We
will go back with you to your people."
11 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?
12 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- 13 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!"
14 At this they wept again. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law
good-by, but Ruth clung to her.
15 "Look," said Naomi, "your sister-in-law is going back to her people
and her gods. Go back with her."
16 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. 17 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." 18 When Naomi
realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped urging
her.
19 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?"
20 "Don't call me Naomi, [b] " she told them. "Call me Mara, [c]
because the Almighty [d] has made my life very bitter. 21 I went away
full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? The
LORD has afflicted [e] me; the Almighty has brought misfortune upon
me."
22 So Naomi returned from Moab accompanied by Ruth the Moabitess, her
daughter-in-law, arriving in Bethlehem as the barley harvest was
beginning.
Footnotes:
1. Ruth 1:1 Traditionally judged
2. Ruth 1:20 Naomi means pleasant ; also in verse 21.
3. Ruth 1:20 Mara means bitter .
4. Ruth 1:20 Hebrew Shaddai ; also in verse 21
5. Ruth 1:21 Or has testified against
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