They married Moabite women, one named Orpah and the other Ruth. After they had lived there about ten years,
Moreover, in those days I saw men of Judah who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon and Moab.
Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab, Boaz the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth, Obed the father of Jesse,
No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord, not even in the tenth generation.
Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,
Now Elimelek, Naomi’s husband, died, and she was left with her two sons.
both Mahlon and Kilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband.