Collection of Education/collectionofeducationcarat1997.iso/RELIGION/BIMAR10D.ZIP/RUT00.EXE/KJV/RUT/RUT01.KJV

Text File | 1986-11-26 | 4KB | 67 lines

 1:1  Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled,
that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of
Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and
his wife, and his two sons.
 1:2  And the name of the man [was] Elimelech, and the name of
his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and
Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehemjudah. And they came into the
country of Moab, and continued there.
 1:3  And Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and
her two sons.
 1:4  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.
 1:5  And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the
woman was left of her two sons and her husband.
 1:6  Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might
return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the
country of Moab how that the Lord had visited his people in
giving them bread.
 1:7  Wherefore she went forth out of the place where she was,
and her two daughters in law with her; and they went on the way
to return unto the land of Judah.
 1:8  And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return
each to her mother's house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as
ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.
 1:9  The LORD grant you that ye may find rest, each [of you]
in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they
lifted up their voice, and wept.
 1:10  And they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee
unto thy people.
 1:11  And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go
with me? [are] there yet [any more] sons in my womb, that they
may be your husbands?
 1:12  Turn again, my daughters, go [your way]; for I am too
old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, [if] I
should have an husband also to night, and should also bear
sons;
 1:13  Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye
stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it
grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD is
gone out against me.
 1:14  And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and
Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.
 1:15  And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back
unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy
sister in law.
 1:16  And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave thee, [or] to
return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I
will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people
[shall be] my people, and thy God my God:
 1:17  Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be
buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, [if ought] but
death part thee and me.
 1:18  When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with
her, then she left speaking unto her.
 1:19  So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it
came to pass, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the
city was moved about them, and they said, [Is] this Naomi?
 1:20  And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara:
for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.
 1:21  I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again
empty: why [then] call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath
testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?
 1:22  So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter
in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab:
and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.