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 BethlehemYhudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
And YY said unto Shmuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Yisrael? fill thine shofar with oil, and go, I will send thee to Yishai the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.
And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. YY make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Yisrael: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:
So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi?