Are we going to start reading a new book in the Old Testament The Book
of Ruth? Book of Ruth Old Testament of the Bible. We began in
the first chapter It happened in the days that the judges ruled, that there
was a famine in the land, and a man from Bethlehem of Judah went
to dwell in the fields of Moab, he and his wife and two sons.
The name of the man was Elimelech, and that of his wife Naomi,
and the names of his sons were Mahalon and Kelyon. Ephratheists of Bethlehem
of Judah. And they came to the plains of Moab, and tarried there,
and Elimelech the husband of Naomi died, and Eliah and her two sons
remained, and they took Moabite wives for themselves. The name of the one
was Orphah and the name of the other Ruth, and they lived there for
about ten years, and the two Malon and Kelion died, leaving the wife
helpless from her two sons and her husband. Then he arose with his daughters
- in- law and returned from the plains of Moab because he heard in
the field of Moab that the LORD had visited his people to give them bread.
So he went out of the place where he had been, and with
him and his two daughters- in- law, and they began to walk
to return to the land of Judah, and Naomi said to her two daughters
- in- law," Go back each to her mother' s house
" Jehovah do to you mercy as you have done to the dead and with
me grant you Jehovah rest each one in her husband' s house. Then
he kissed them and Elijah lifted up their voice and wept and they said to
him," We will certainly go with you to your people and Naomi answered
" Come back, my children, why should you go with me? I
have more children in my womb than your husbands can be. Go back,
my daughters and go away because I am old enough to have a husband and
even if I said hope, I have and tonight I was with a husband
and I still gave birth to children, you were to wait for them until
they were great. You were to remain unmarried for the love of ellios,
not my daughters, which is more bitter. I have that you, for
the hand of the LORD is gone out against me, and Elias lifted up
again his and wept, and Orpha kissed his mother- in- law,
but Ruth stayed with her, and Naomi said, Behold, thy sister-
in- law is turned unto her people, and unto her gods return thy
Traselia, Ruth answered. Don' t beg me to leave you and turn
away from you, for wherever you go, I will go and wherever you
live, I will live your people, it will be my people and your
god, my god. Where you die, I will die and be buried
there. This is how Jehovah makes me, and he still adds to me
that only death will make a separation between the two of us. And seeing
him in me that he was so determined to go with her, he said
no more. And they went on, and they two, until they came
to Bethlehem, and it came to pass, when they had come into Bethlehem,
that the whole city was moved because of Elias, and they said,
This is not Naomi, and she answered him. Do not call me Naomi,
but call me Mara, for the Almighty has made me great Amargura.
I left full, but Jehovah has turned me back empty- handed. Why
will you call me Naomi, for Jehovah has testified against me and the almighty
has afflicted me. Thus Naomi returned and Ruth the Moabite her daughter- in
- law. With it he returned from the fields of Moab and came to
Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley blind.