Ruth 1:1-5
Naomi’s Husband and Sons Die
1Now it happened in the days awhen the judges judged, that there was ba famine in the land. And a certain man cof Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the fields of Moab 1with his wife and his two sons. 2The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife, Naomi; and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem in Judah. Now they acame to the fields of Moab and remained there. 3Then Elimelech, Naomi’s husband, died; and she was left with her two sons. 4They took for themselves Moabite women as wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. And they lived there about ten years. 5Then 1both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and the woman was left without her two children and her husband.