Ruth 1:4

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

Leeser Tanakh

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

3Thereupon died Elimelech Na'omi's husband; and she was left, with her two sons.

5And then died also both of these, Machlon and Kilyon, and the woman was left [deprived] of her two children and her husband.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 23:3(23:4) An 'Ammonite and a Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even the tenth generation of him shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord, for ever;

Nehemiah 13:23In those days also I saw certain Jews that had brought home wives 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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