Chapter 1: 1-5
"Ruth's Relationships"
J. Deering, AncientPath.net

VISUALIZED TEXT

THE VISUALIZED TEXT (NASB)  (conjunctions & prepositions (and other important words) underlined, words not in original text in italics)  (alternate text in purple)

(1:1)
Now it came about

in the days when the judges governed (or, judged),

that there was a famine in the land.
And a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah

went to sojourn in the land of Moab
with his (Lit., he, and ...) wife and his two sons.

(1:2)

And the name of the man was Elimelech (Name: "my God is King"),
and the name of his wife, Naomi (Name: "pleasant, lovely");
and the names of his two sons were Mahlon (Name: "puny") and Chilion (Name: "pining"),

Ephrathites (a designation for inhabitants of Bethlehem) of Bethlehem in Judah.

Now they entered the land of Moab

and remained there.

(1:3)
Then

Elimelech,
Naomi's husband,

died;

and she was left with her two sons.

(1:4a)

And they took for themselves Moabite women as wives

the name of the one was Orpah and
the name of the other Ruth.

(1:4b)

 

And they lived there about ten years.

(1:5)
Then

both (Lit., both of them) Mahlon and Chilion also died;

and the woman was bereft of her two children and her husband.

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