And they took wives for them of the women of Moab. The name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth, and they dwelt there about ten years.

And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, Go, return each of you to her mother's house. LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.

And she said to them, Call me not Naomi. Call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

So she kept close by the maidens of Boaz, to glean to the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest. And she dwelt with her mother-in-law.

And when she came to her mother-in-law, she said, Who are thou, my daughter? And she told her all that the man had done to her.