Ruth 1: Naomi and Ruth Return to Bethlehem

Famine drives Naomi’s family to Moab in the era of the judges, and there her husband and both sons die. Hearing the LORD has provided food, she heads home; Orpah turns back, but Ruth vows to take Naomi’s people and God as her own, and Naomi reaches Bethlehem lamenting that the LORD has made her life bitter.

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