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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

Elimelech and His Family Move to Moab As has already been mentioned, this first section (1:1–5) constitutes the introduction to the book. It provides all the necessary information for the following story, since it describes the time, place, persons, and circumstance (namely, the famine) which gave rise to the events described later in the book. The theme of “emptiness” is particularly emphasized in this section by the mention of “a famine in the
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