Ruth 1:4

They married women from Moab. One of them was named Orpah, and the other one was named Ruth. But after they had lived in that area for about ten years,

Translation for Translators

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

3While they were there, Elimelech died, and Naomi had only her two sons with her.

5Mahlon and Chilion died. So then Naomi had no husband and no sons.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 23:3“No one from the Ammon or Moab people-groups shall be ◄included as one of/allowed to worship with► Yahweh’s people, extending to the tenth generation.

Nehemiah 13:23During that time, I also found out that many of the Jewish men had married women from Ashdod city, and from the Ammon and Moab people-groups.

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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