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Ruth · read by Don Courville
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In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a certain man from Bethlehem in Judah, with his wife and two sons, went to reside in the land of Moab.Read from NKJV · Keys for a Successful Family Life - Part 6
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The man's name was Elimelech, his wife's name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah, and they entered the land of Moab and settled there.Read from KJV · Keys for a Successful Family Life - Part 6
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Then Naomi's husband Elimelech died, and she was left with her two sons,Read from KJV · Keys for a Successful Family Life - Part 6
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who took Moabite women as their wives, one named Orpah and the other named Ruth. And after they had lived in Moab about ten years,Read from KJV · Keys for a Successful Family Life - Part 6
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both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and without her husband.Read from KJV · Keys for a Successful Family Life - Part 6
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When Naomi heard in Moab that the LORD had attended to His people by providing them with food, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to leave the land of Moab.Read from KJV · Keys for a Successful Family Life - Part 6
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Accompanied by her two daughters-in-law, she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road leading back to the land of Judah.Read from KJV · Keys for a Successful Family Life - Part 6
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Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go back, each of you to your mother's home. May the LORD show you loving devotion, as you have shown to your dead and to me.Read from KJV · Keys for a Successful Family Life - Part 6
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May the LORD enable each of you to find rest in the home of your new husband." And she kissed them as they wept aloudRead from ESV · Keys for a Successful Family Life - Part 6
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and said, "Surely we will return with you to your people."Read from KJV · Keys for a Successful Family Life - Part 7
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But Naomi replied, "Return home, my daughters. Why would you go with me? Are there still sons in my womb to become your husbands?Read from KJV · Keys for a Successful Family Life - Part 7
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Return home, my daughters. Go on, for I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was hope for me to have a husband tonight and to bear sons,Read from NKJV · Keys for a Successful Family Life - Part 6
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would you wait for them to grow up? Would you refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, it grieves me very much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD has gone out against me."Read from KJV · Keys for a Successful Family Life - Part 6
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Again they wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.Read from KJV · Keys for a Successful Family Life - Part 7
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But Ruth replied: "Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.Read from KJV · Keys for a Successful Family Life - Part 7
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Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD punish me, and ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me."Read from KJV · Keys for a Successful Family Life - Part 7
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When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped trying to persuade her.Read from KJV · Keys for a Successful Family Life - Part 7
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"Do not call me Naomi, " she replied. "Call me Mara, because the Almighty has dealt quite bitterly with me.Read from KJV · Keys for a Successful Family Life - Part 7