Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two children and without her husband.
New American Standard Bible
Then
King James Version
And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband.
International Standard Version
both Mahlon and Chilion died, leaving Naomi alone with neither her husband nor her two sons.
A Conservative Version
And Mahlon and Chilion died, both of them, and the woman was left of her two children and of her husband.
American Standard Version
And Mahlon and Chilion died both of them; and the woman was left of her two children and of her husband.
Amplified
and then both Mahlon and Chilion also died, so the woman [Naomi] was left without her two sons and her husband.
Bible in Basic English
And Mahlon and Chilion came to their end; and the woman was without her two sons and her husband.
Darby Translation
And Mahlon and Chilion died also, both of them; and the woman was left of her two children and of her husband.
Julia Smith Translation
And Mahlon and Chilioh, also they two, will die; and the woman will be left of her two children and of her husband.
King James 2000
And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left without her two sons and her husband.
Lexham Expanded Bible
But {both} Mahlon and Kilion died, and the woman was left without her two sons and without her husband.
Modern King James verseion
And Mahlon and Chilion also died, both of them. And the woman was left without her two sons and her husband.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Mahlon and Chilion died also; even both two of them, so that the wife was left desolate of her two sons and of her husband thereto.
NET Bible
Then Naomi's two sons, Mahlon and Kilion, also died. So the woman was left all alone -- bereaved of her two children as well as her husband!
New Heart English Bible
Mahlon and Chilion both died, and the woman was bereaved of her two children and of her husband.
The Emphasized Bible
And, they also, both, died, Mahlon and Chilion, - so the woman was bereft of her two sons, and of her husband.
Webster
And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left by her two sons and her husband.
World English Bible
Mahlon and Chilion both died, and the woman was bereaved of her two children and of her husband.
Youngs Literal Translation
And they die also, both of them -- Mahlon and Chilion -- and the woman is left of her two children and of her husband.
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ruth 1:5
Images Ruth 1:5
Prayers for Ruth 1:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Elimelech Takes His Family To Live In Moab
4
Her sons took Moabite women as their wives: one was named Orpah and the second was named Ruth. After they lived in Moab about 10 years,
5 both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two children and without her husband.
6
She and her daughters-in-law prepared to leave the land of Moab, because she had heard in Moab that the Lord had paid attention to His people’s need by providing them food.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:39
there is no God but Me.
I bring death and I give life;
I wound and I heal.
No one can rescue anyone from My hand.
Psalm 89:30-32
and do not live by My ordinances,
Isaiah 49:21
‘Who fathered these for me?
I was deprived of my children and unable to conceive,
exiled and wandering—
but who brought them up?
See, I was left by myself—
but these, where did they come from?’”
Jeremiah 2:19
your own apostasies will reprimand you.
Think it over and see how evil and bitter
for you to abandon the Lord your God
and to have no fear of Me.
This is the declaration
of the Lord God of Hosts.
Matthew 22:25-27
Now there were seven brothers among us. The first got married and died. Having no offspring, he left his wife to his brother.
Luke 7:12
Just as He neared the gate of the town, a dead man was being carried out. He was his mother’s only son, and she was a widow.