How it works
The Bible tells how Naomi lived in Bethlehem with her husband and two sons. A famine came, so the family walked to Moab to find food.
Later Naomi decided to go home. She told Ruth, who had married one of her sons, to go back to her own home, but Ruth held on to Naomi and said she would go wherever Naomi went.
In Bethlehem it was the start of the barley harvest. Ruth picked up the grain the harvesters dropped, in the field of a man named Boaz, who was kind to her.
Boaz and Ruth were married, and they had a baby boy named Obed. Naomi held him close, and the women told her she had a family again.
Worked examples
Why they left Bethlehem
- A famine came, which is a time when there is not enough food.
- In those days there was no shop to buy food, so the family walked to Moab to find some.
What Ruth did
- Ruth asked to pick up the dropped grain, which the law left for the poor.
- She went out at sunrise with a basket.
- She picked up the grain that the harvesters dropped, and that evening she carried a basket home to Naomi.