These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
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Tanakh 22 verses
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AND IT came to pass in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem in went to sojourn in the field of , he, and his wife, and his two sons.
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Genesis 12:10 Genesis 26:1 Psalm 105:16 Judges 17:8 Ezekiel 14:13 Genesis 43:1 Jeremiah 14:1 Judges 12:8 Deuteronomy 28:23-24 Joel 1:10-11 2 Kings 8:1-2 Amos 4:6 Deuteronomy 28:38 Judges 19:1-2 Ezekiel 14:21 Psalm 107:34 Leviticus 26:19 1 Kings 17:1-12 2 Samuel 21:1 1 Kings 18:2 Joel 1:16-20 Judges 2:16-18 -
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And the of the man was Elimelech, and the of his wife , and the of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Beth-lehem in . And they came into the field of , and continued there.
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And Elimelech Naomi’s husband died; and she was left, and her two sons.
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And they took them wives of the women of : the of the one was Orpah, and the of the other ; and they dwelt there about ten years.
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And Mahlon and Chilion died both of them; and the woman was left of her two children and of her husband.
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Then she arose with her daughters-in-, that she might return from the field of ; for she had heard in the field of how that had remembered His people in giving them bread.
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Psalm 132:15 Exodus 4:31 Matthew 6:11 Exodus 3:16 Luke 1:68 Psalm 111:5 Luke 19:44 Psalm 145:15 Genesis 50:25 Genesis 48:15 1 Samuel 2:21 Isaiah 55:10 Jeremiah 29:10 1 Timothy 6:8 Genesis 21:1 Psalm 104:14-15 Psalm 147:14 Genesis 28:20 Psalm 146:7 1 Peter 2:12 Exodus 16:4-6 Proverbs 30:8 Zephaniah 2:7 -
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And she went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in- with her; and they went on the way to return unto the land of .
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- 8 And said unto her two daughters-in-: ‘Go, return each of you to her mother’s house; deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.
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The grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.’ Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept.
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And they said unto her: ‘Nay, but we will return with thee unto thy people.’
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And said: ‘Turn back, my daughters; why will ye go with me? have I yet sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?
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Turn back, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say: I have , should I even have an husband to-night, and also bear sons;
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would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye shut yourselves off for them and have no husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes, for the hand of is gone forth against me.’
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- 14 And they lifted up their voice, and wept again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-; but cleaved unto her.
- 15 And she said: ‘Behold, thy sister-in- is gone back unto her people, and unto her ; return thou after thy sister-in-.’
- 16 And said: ‘Entreat me not to leave thee, and to return from following after thee; for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy my ;
- 17 where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.’
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And when she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, she left off speaking unto her.
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So they two went until they came to Beth-lehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Beth-lehem, that all the city was astir concerning them, and the women said: ‘Is this ?’
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- 20 And she said unto them: ‘Call me not , call me Marah; for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.
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I went out full, and hath brought me back home empty; why call ye me , seeing hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?’
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So returned, and the Moabitess, her daughter-in-, with her, who returned out of the field of —and they came to Beth-lehem in the beginning of barley harvest.
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