1 And it came to pass in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land: and there went a certain man of Beth–lechem–judah to sojourn in the fields of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.

2 And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Na’omi, and the name of his two sons Machlon and Kilyon, Ephrathites of Beth–lechem–judah. And they came into the fields of Moab, and remained there.

3 Thereupon died Elimelech Na’omi’s husband; and she was left, with her two sons.