Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons...And they took them wivesof the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth; and they dwelled there about ten years....
