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Are we going to start reading a
new book in the Old Testament The Book

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of Ruth? Book of Ruth Old
Testament of the Bible. We began in

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the first chapter It happened in the
days that the judges ruled, that there

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was a famine in the land,
and a man from Bethlehem of Judah went

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to dwell in the fields of Moab, he and his wife and two sons.

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The name of the man was Elimelech, and that of his wife Naomi,

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and the names of his sons were
Mahalon and Kelyon. Ephratheists of Bethlehem

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of Judah. And they came to
the plains of Moab, and tarried there,

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and Elimelech the husband of Naomi died, and Eliah and her two sons

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remained, and they took Moabite wives
for themselves. The name of the one

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was Orphah and the name of the
other Ruth, and they lived there for

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about ten years, and the two
Malon and Kelion died, leaving the wife

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helpless from her two sons and her
husband. Then he arose with his daughters

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- in- law and returned from
the plains of Moab because he heard in

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the field of Moab that the LORD
had visited his people to give them bread.

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So he went out of the place
where he had been, and with

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him and his two daughters- in- law, and they began to walk

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to return to the land of Judah, and Naomi said to her two daughters

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- in- law," Go
back each to her mother' s house

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" Jehovah do to you mercy as
you have done to the dead and with

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me grant you Jehovah rest each one
in her husband' s house. Then

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he kissed them and Elijah lifted up
their voice and wept and they said to

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him," We will certainly go
with you to your people and Naomi answered

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" Come back, my children,
why should you go with me? I

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have more children in my womb than
your husbands can be. Go back,

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my daughters and go away because I
am old enough to have a husband and

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even if I said hope, I
have and tonight I was with a husband

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and I still gave birth to children, you were to wait for them until

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they were great. You were to
remain unmarried for the love of ellios,

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not my daughters, which is more
bitter. I have that you, for

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the hand of the LORD is gone
out against me, and Elias lifted up

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again his and wept, and Orpha
kissed his mother- in- law,

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but Ruth stayed with her, and
Naomi said, Behold, thy sister-

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in- law is turned unto her
people, and unto her gods return thy

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Traselia, Ruth answered. Don'
t beg me to leave you and turn

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away from you, for wherever you
go, I will go and wherever you

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live, I will live your people, it will be my people and your

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god, my god. Where you
die, I will die and be buried

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there. This is how Jehovah makes
me, and he still adds to me

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that only death will make a separation
between the two of us. And seeing

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him in me that he was so
determined to go with her, he said

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no more. And they went on, and they two, until they came

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to Bethlehem, and it came to
pass, when they had come into Bethlehem,

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that the whole city was moved because
of Elias, and they said,

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This is not Naomi, and she
answered him. Do not call me Naomi,

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but call me Mara, for the
Almighty has made me great Amargura.

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I left full, but Jehovah has
turned me back empty- handed. Why

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will you call me Naomi, for
Jehovah has testified against me and the almighty

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has afflicted me. Thus Naomi returned
and Ruth the Moabite her daughter- in

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- law. With it he returned
from the fields of Moab and came to

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Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley
blind.