In the days in the event the judges ruled there was a famine within the land, and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn while in the region of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. The name of the man was Elimelech along with the name of his wife Naomi, as well as names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bet