Ruth 1:1 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ IN THE days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem of Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, his wife, and his two sons.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹ During the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. A man with his wife and two sons went from Bethlehem of Judah to dwell in the territory of Moab.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ In the days of one of the judges, when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a man from Bethlehem in Judah departed to sojourn in the region of the Moabites with his wife and two children.

Ruth 1:1 Cross References

Genesis 12:10

And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was sore in the land.

Genesis 26:1

And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.

Ezekiel 14:13

Son of man, when a land sinneth against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out mine hand upon it, and break the staff of the bread thereof, and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast;

Judges 17:8

And the man departed out of the city, out of Beth-lehem-judah, to sojourn where he could find a place: and he came to the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.

Leviticus 26:19

And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:

Genesis 43:1

And the famine was sore in the land.

Amos 4:6

And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

Psalm 105:16

And he called for a famine upon the land; He brake the whole staff of bread.

Deuteronomy 28:38

Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.

Ezekiel 14:21

For thus saith the Lord GOD How much more when I send my four sore judgements upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beasts, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?

Jeremiah 14:1

The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.

Psalm 107:34

A fruitful land into a salt desert, For the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

1 Kings 18:2

And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And the famine was sore in Samaria.

Judges 12:8

And after him Ibzan of Beth-lehem judged Israel.

2 Samuel 21:1

And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites.

Judges 17:7

And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.

Micah 5:2

But thou, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, which art little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall one come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.

1 Chronicles 2:51

Salma the father of Beth-lehem, Hareph the father of Beth-gader.

1 Chronicles 2:54

The sons of Salma; Beth-lehem, the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-Joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.