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Ruth · read by Murray McCandless
21 verses, in order. Only the verses Murray read aloud are shown.
Ruth 1
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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 · Naomi
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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 · Naomi
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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 · Naomi
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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 · Naomi
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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 · Naomi
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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 KJV · Naomi
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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 · Naomi
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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 · Naomi
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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 · Naomi
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Again they wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.Read from KJV · Naomi
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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 · Naomi
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When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped trying to persuade her.Read from KJV · Naomi
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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 · Naomi
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I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? After all, the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me."Read from KJV · Naomi
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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 KJV · Naomi
Ruth 4
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Then the women said to Naomi, "Blessed be the LORD, who has not left you this day without a kinsman-redeemer. May his name become famous in Israel.Read from KJV · Naomi
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He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth."Read from KJV · Naomi
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The neighbor women said, "A son has been born to Naomi," and they named him Obed. He became the father of Jesse, the father of David.Read from KJV · Naomi