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Ruth 1:5-7
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5 both Mahlon and Chilion died also, and the woman was left with neither her two boys[a] nor her husband.

6 She and her daughters-in-law then prepared to go back from the plateau of Moab because word had reached her there that the Lord had seen to his people’s needs[b] and given them food. 7 She and her two daughters-in-law left the place where they had been living. On the road back to the land of Judah,

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Footnotes

  1. 1:5 Boys: the way the storyteller chooses certain words as guides is shown here; “boy” will not appear again until 4:16.
  2. 1:6 Had seen to his people’s needs: lit., “had visited his people.”
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