Ruth 1:4

And they took to themselves wives, women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpha, and the name of the second Ruth; and they dwelt there about ten years.

Brenton Septuagint

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 Noemin died; and she was left, and her two sons.

5And both Maalon and Chelaion died also; and the woman was left of her husband and her two sons.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 23:3One born of a harlot shall not enter into the assembly of the Lord.

Nehemiah 13:23And in those days I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, 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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