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1-2 Long ago when judges ruled in Israel, a man named Elimelech, from Bethlehem,[a] left the country because of a famine and moved to the land of Moab. With him were his wife, Naomi, and his two sons, Mahlon and Chilion.

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  1. Ruth 1:1 from Bethlehem, literally, “They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah.”

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