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Old Testament Reading - Naomi and Ruth - The Beginning.

This full video is just over half an hour long and is available on youtube.
We stop it at about the 9 minute mark, matching the reading and will cover the rest another day.

Now it happened in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the fields of Moab^a with his wife and his two sons.

³Then Elimelech, Naomi’s husband, died; and she was left with her two sons. ⁴They took for themselves Moabite women as wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. And they lived there about ten years. ⁵Then^b both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and the woman was left without her two children and her husband.

⁶Then she arose with her daughters-in-law and returned from the fields of Moab, for she had heard in the fields of Moab that^c Yahweh had visited His people to give them^d food.

¹⁴And they lifted up their voices and wept again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.

¹⁵Then she said, “Behold, your sister-in-law has returned to her people and her gods; return after your sister-in-law.” ¹⁶But Ruth said, “Do not press me to forsake you in turning back from following you; for where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God.

²²So Naomi returned, and with her Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, who returned from the fields of Moab. Now they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest.

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