story of Ruth

Ruth’s story: Ruth lived in the land of Moab where her inhabitants worked foreign labor. At that time there lived in Bethlehem a man named Elimelech and he had a wife named Naomi and two sons named Mahlon and Kalion. Those years were years of drought in Israel and there was a great famine so Elimelech and his family left for Moab.

Elimelech planned to return to Bethlehem soon but he died when he was in Moab, his two sons married two Moabite women, one called Neraf and the other Ruth. The two sons also died, leaving Naomi and her two daughters-in-law alone, widows

After ten years Naomi heard that God had sent a great harvest to Israel and was preparing to set out on the long journey back to Bethlehem, she turned her back on Naomi and returned to her people but Ruth refused to leave, Naomi could not persuade her to go back to her people either. And so the two women continued together on their way to Bethlehem.