They took wives from the Moabite women; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other was Ruth. They lived there about ten years;

May the Lord grant that you find rest, each one in the home of her husband.” Then she kissed them [goodbye], and they wept aloud.

Then they wept aloud again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law [goodbye], but Ruth clung to her.

So the two of them went on until they came to Bethlehem. And when they arrived in Bethlehem, the whole city was stirred because of them, and the women asked, “Is this Naomi?”

So she gleaned in the field until evening. Then she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.