It begins with the deaths of brothers Chilion and Mahlon and their father. Chilion's wife Orpah decides to remain in her homeland, but the title character, her kinsman, the wife of Mahlon, instead chooses to stay with a woman who instructs her to call her Marah, the wife OF  Elimelech. It ends with the lineage of the title character's second husband, beginning with Perez and ending with her son Obed, her grandson Jesse, and her more famous great-grandson. This book tracks the journey to Bethlehe
It begins with the deaths of brothers Chilion and Mahlon and their father. Chilion's wife Orpah decides to remain in her homeland, but the title character, her kinsman, the wife of Mahlon, instead chooses to stay with a woman who instructs her to call her Marah, the wife OF  Elimelech. It ends with the lineage of the title character's second husband, beginning with Perez and ending with her son Obed, her grandson Jesse, and her more famous great-grandson. This book tracks the journey to Bethlehem of Naomi, (*) the title character's mother in law, from Moab, and in Bethlehem, she remarries after meeting a relative of Elimelech, Boaz. FTP name this book in the K'tuvim section of the Old Testament about the great-grandmother of David.
It begins with the deaths of brothers Chilion and Mahlon and their father.
Book of {Ruth} or {Megilat Rut}