Rut 1:1, Est 1:1 | 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

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.

Esther 1:1

The King’s Banquets

1 Now in the days of Ahasuerus, the Ahasuerus who reigned ^dfrom India to Ethiopia over ^e127 provinces,