Repetition in Ruth 1:1-5 (nb. "man"
& "husband" represent the same word as do "woman"
& "wife")
1 In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine
in the land, and a certain man of
Bethlehem in Judah went to live in
the country of Moab, he and his wife
and two sons.
2 The name of the man
was Elimelech and the name
of his wife Naomi,
and the names of his two
sons were Mahlon and Chilion;
they were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah.
They went into the country of Moab
and remained there.
3 But Elimelech, the husband
of Naomi, died, and she was left with her two
sons.
4 These took Moabite wives; the name
of the one was Orpah and the name
of the other Ruth. When they had lived there about ten years,
5 both Mahlon and Chilion also died,
so that the woman was left without
her two sons and her husband.