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Now it came about in the days when the judgesgoverned, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem in Judahwent to sojourn in the land of Moab with his wife and his twosons.
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The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife, Naomi; and the names of his twosons were Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem in Judah. Now they entered the land of Moab and remainedthere.