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New King James Version (NKJV)

Judges 21
²³ And the children of Benjamin did so; they took enough wives for their number from those who danced, whom they caught. Then they went and returned to their inheritance, and they rebuilt the cities and dwelt in them.
²⁴ So the children of Israel departed from there at that time, every man to his tribe and family; they went out from there, every man to his inheritance.
²⁵ In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
Ruth 1
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 Bethlehem, Judah, went to dwell in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.
² The name of the man was Elimelech, the name of his wife was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion--Ephrathites of Bethlehem, Judah. And they went to the country of Moab and remained there.
³ Then Elimelech, Naomi’s husband, died; and she was left, and her two sons.
⁴ Now they took wives of the women of Moab: the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth. And they dwelt there about ten years.
⁵ Then both Mahlon and Chilion also died; so the woman survived her two sons and her husband.
⁶ Then she arose with her daughters-in-law that she might return from the country of Moab, for she had heard in the country of Moab that the Lord had visited His people by giving them bread.
⁷ Therefore she went out from the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her; and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah.
⁸ And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go, return each to her mother’s house. The Lord deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.