• Ruth 1:1
    The Bible in Living English

    • 1 And in the time when the judges judged there was a famine in the country, and a man from Bethlehem in Judah went to live as an immigrant in Moab, he and his wife and his two sons;

  • Ruth 1:1
    American Standard Version

    • 1 And it came to pass in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.

  • Ruth 1:1
    The Emphasized Bible

    • 1 And it came to pass, in the days when the Judges administered justice, that there was a famine in the land,—and so a certain man went his way out of Bethlehem-judah to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.

  • Ruth 1:1
    King James Version

    • 1 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 Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.