Rut 1:1-2 | ESV | STEP | In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land , and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab , he and his wife and his two sons .

‏ Ruth 1:1-2

Naomi Widowed

1 In the days ^awhen the judges ruled there was ^ba famine in the land, and a man of ^cBethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. 2 The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were ^dEphrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went into the country of Moab and remained there.