thus it was that naomi returned with the moabite daughter-in-law, ruth, who accompanied her back from the plateau of moab.

she then made ready to go back from the plateau of moab because word reached her there that the lord had visited his people and given them food.

elimelech, the husband of naomi, died, and she was left with her two sons, who married moabite women, one named orpah, the other ruth.

once in the time of the judges there was a famine in the land; so a man from bethlehem of judah departed with his wife and two sons to reside on the plateau of moab.