![]() ![]() Having lost everything in Moab, Naomi and Ruth bravely set out to create a new life for themselves in Bethlehem. ![]() ![]() While one daughter-in-law remains in Moab, the other refuses to abandon Naomi. Ruth vows that Naomi’s people will be her people, and Naomi’s god will be her god. But when her husband dies, and her sons die without heirs, Naomi decides to return to her own land and people. For as years go by, Naomi’s husband and sons are seduced by Moab’s permissive society and pagan religion, and both her sons marry Moabite women. When drought and famine ravage ancient Canaan, Elimelech takes his wife and two sons and moves from the Hebrew land to Moab, much to his wife Naomi’s regret. ![]()
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