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Then [a]both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and the woman was left without her two children and her husband.

Ruth Is Determined to Go with Naomi

Then she arose with her daughters-in-law and returned from the fields of Moab, for she had heard in the fields of Moab that [b]Yahweh had (A)visited His people to (B)give them [c]food. So she went forth from the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her; and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah.

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 1:5 Lit both of them
  2. Ruth 1:6 The personal covenant name of God, a form of I AM WHO I AM, cf. Ex 3:14-15
  3. Ruth 1:6 Lit bread, cf. Bethlehem (house of bread), Ruth 1:19