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Ruth · read by Fred Tomlinson
14 verses, in order. Only the verses Fred read aloud are shown.
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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 NASB1995 · The Most Dire Famine
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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 NASB1995 · The Most Dire Famine
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Then Naomi's husband Elimelech died, and she was left with her two sons,Read from NASB1995 · The Most Dire Famine
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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 NASB1995 · The Most Dire Famine
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both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and without her husband.Read from NASB1995 · The Most Dire Famine
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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 NASB1995 · The Most Dire Famine
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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 NASB1995 · The Most Dire Famine
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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 NASB1995 · The Most Dire Famine
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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 NASB1995 · The Most Dire Famine
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Again they wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.Read from NASB1995 · The Most Dire Famine
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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 NASB1995 · The Most Dire Famine
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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 NASB1995 · The Most Dire Famine
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When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped trying to persuade her.Read from ESV · The Most Dire Famine
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So Naomi returned from the land of Moab with her daughter-in-law Ruth the Moabitess. And they arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.Read from NASB1995 · The Most Dire Famine