She left the place where she had been living, accompanied by her two daughters-in-law, and traveled along the road leading back to the land of Judah.
When the woman returned from the land of the Philistines at the end of seven years, she went to appeal to the king for her house and field.
Then Moses said good-bye to his father-in-law, and he journeyed to his own land.
“No,” they said to her. “We will go with you to your people.”
Again they wept loudly, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.
She and her daughters-in-law prepared to leave the land of Moab, because she had heard in Moab that the Lord had paid attention to His people’s need by providing them food.
She said to them, “Each of you go back to your mother’s home. May the Lord show faithful love to you as you have shown to the dead and to me.