Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Each of her sons married Moabite women: one named Orpah and the other named Ruth. After they lived there about ten years,
New American Standard Bible
They took for themselves Moabite women as wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. And they lived there about ten years.
King James Version
And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years.
Holman Bible
Her sons took Moabite women as their wives: one was named Orpah and the second was named Ruth. After they lived in Moab about 10 years,
A Conservative Version
And they took wives for them of the women of Moab. The name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth, and they dwelt there about ten years.
American Standard Version
And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelt there about ten years.
Amplified
They took wives from the Moabite women; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other was Ruth. They lived there about ten years;
Bible in Basic English
And they took two women of Moab as their wives: the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth; and they went on living there for about ten years.
Darby Translation
And they took them Moabitish wives; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the second Ruth: and they abode there about ten years.
Julia Smith Translation
And they will take to them wives from the Moabitesses; the name of the one, Orpah, and the name of the second, Ruth: and they will dwell there about ten years.
King James 2000
And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And {they took} for themselves Moabite wives. The name of the one [was] Orpah and the name of the other [was] Ruth. And they lived there about ten years.
Modern King James verseion
And they took wives for themselves from the women of Moab. The name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth. And they lived there about ten years.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
which took them wives of the nations of the Moabites: the one's name Orpah and the other's Ruth. And when they had dwelled there about a ten years,
NET Bible
So her sons married Moabite women. (One was named Orpah and the other Ruth.) And they continued to live there about ten years.
New Heart English Bible
And they took for themselves wives from the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they lived there about ten years.
The Emphasized Bible
And they took them wives, of the women of Moab, the name of the one, was Orpah, and, the name of the other, Ruth, - and they dwelt there, about ten years.
Webster
And they took to themselves wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelt there about ten years.
World English Bible
They took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they lived there about ten years.
Youngs Literal Translation
and they take to them wives, Moabitesses: the name of the one is Orpah, and the name of the second Ruth; and they dwell there about ten years.
Themes
Moabites » Are a snare to the israelites
Moabites » israelites » Sometimes intermarried with
Orpah » The less famous daughter-in-law of naomi
Ruth » The daughter-in-law of naomi
Interlinear
Nasa'
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ruth 1:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Elimelech Takes His Family To Live In Moab
3 Then Naomi's husband Elimelech died, and she was left with her two sons. 4 Each of her sons married Moabite women: one named Orpah and the other named Ruth. After they lived there about ten years, 5 both Mahlon and Chilion died, leaving Naomi alone with neither her husband nor her two sons.
Phrases
Cross References
Matthew 1:5
Salmon fathered Boaz by Rahab, Boaz fathered Obed by Ruth, Obed fathered Jesse,
Deuteronomy 7:3
You are not to intermarry with them. You are not to give your daughters to their sons nor take their daughters for your sons,
Deuteronomy 23:3
No Ammonite or Moabite may participate in the assembly of the LORD, and none of their descendants shall be admitted to the assembly of the LORD, to the tenth generation,
1 Kings 11:1-2
But King Solomon married many foreign women besides the daughter of Pharaoh: women from Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidonia, along with Hittite women, too,