Ruth 1:4

And they took wives of the women of Moab, of which one was called Orpha, and the other Ruth. And they dwelt there ten years.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years.

In Context

3And Elimelech the husband of Noemi died: and she remained with her sons.

5And they both died, to wit, Mahalon and Chelion: and the woman was left alone, having lost both her sons and her husband.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 23:3The Ammonite and the Moabite, even after the tenth generation shall not enter into the church of the Lord for ever:

Nehemiah 13:23In those days also I saw Jews that married wives, women of Azotus, and of Ammon, and of Moab.

Matthew Henry on Ruth 1:2-6

Ruth This short history of the domestic affairs of one particular family fitly follows the book of Judges (the events related here happening in the days of the judges), and fitly goes before the books of Samuel, because in the close it introduces David; yet the Jews, in their Bibles, separate it from both, and make it one of the five Megilloth, or Volumes, which they put together towards the latter end, in this order: Solomon's Song, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, and Esther. It is probable that Samuel was the… Read the whole commentary →

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