Long after the Israelites had settled in the land God gave
them, another famine struck. An
Israelite woman named Naomi moved with her husband and two sons to the land of
Moab to find food. Her sons
married Moabite women. Then
Naomi's husband and both sons died, so she prepared to send her
daughters-in-law back to their own families and to go back to the land of
Israel alone. One of her
daughters-in-law, Ruth, insisted on going with her, however. She said, "Where you go, I will
go; where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God
my God." So Ruth went with
Naomi into the land of Israel, and there she met a relative of Naomi, named
Boaz, as she was gathering grain in his fields. Ruth and Boaz were married, and their firstborn son was
grandfather to the great king David.
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