Rut 1:4

La Biblia Reina-Valera

Los cuales tomaron para sí mujeres de Moab, el nombre de la una Orpha, y el nombre de la otra Ruth; y habitaron allí unos diez años.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
Y ellos se casaron con mujeres moabitas; el nombre de una era Orfa y el nombre de la otra Rut. Y habitaron allí unos diez años.

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
los cuales tomaron para sí esposas de las mujeres de Moab, el nombre de una era Orfa, y el nombre de la otra, Ruth; y habitaron allí unos diez años.

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
los cuales tomaron para sí mujeres de Moab, el nombre de una era Orfa, y el nombre de la otra, Rut; y habitaron allí como diez años.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they took: The Targum says, "they transgressed the decree of the word of the Lord, and took to them strange women."

wives: Deuteronomy 7:3, Deuteronomy 23:3, 1 Kings 11:1, 1 Kings 11:2

Ruth: Matthew 1:5

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they took them wives of the women of Moab,.... Not before they were proselyted to the Jewish religion, as Aben Ezra thinks, and which seems plainly to be the case of Ruth; at least she was so afterwards, if not before; and also of Orpah, as the same writer concludes from Ruth 1:15 though others are of a different opinion, and some excuse their marriage, and others condemn it as unlawful, among whom is the Targumist, who paraphrases the words,

"and they transgressed the decree of the Word of the Lord, and took to them strange wives of the daughters of Moab;''

however it was so permitted by the Lord, and ordered in Providence, that from one of them the Messiah might spring:

and the name of the one was Orpah; she was married to Chilion; and Alshech gathers from hence that the youngest was married first before his brother:

and the name of the other Ruth the Targum adds,

"the daughter of Eglon, king of Moab;''

and that she was his daughter, or the daughter of his son, is a notion commonly received with the Jews y though without any just foundation; she was married to Mahlon, Ruth 4:10, one Philo z asserts these two women to be own sisters, for what reason does not appear; and a Jewish writer a says they were both daughters of Eglon, king of Moab: and they dwelt there about ten years; that is, Mahlon and Chilion, who married these women; which is to be reckoned either from the time they came into the land, or from the time of their marriage; the latter seems to be the case from the connection of the words.

y T. Bab. Nazir, fol. 23. 2. Sotah, fol. 47. 1. Sanhedrin, fol. 105. 2. Horayot, fol. 10. 2. Zohar in Deut. fol. 109. 2. z Apud Drusium in loc. a Shalshalet Hakabala, fol. 8. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Marriages of Israelites with women of Ammon or Moab are nowhere in the Law expressly forbidden, as were marriages with the women of Canaan Deuteronomy 7:1-3. In the days of Nehemiah the special law Deuteronomy 23:3-6 was interpreted as forbidding them, and as excluding the children of such marriages from the congregation of Israel Nehemiah 13:1-3. Probably the marriages of Mahlon and Chilion would be justified by necessity, living as they were in a foreign land. Ruth was the wife of the older brother, Mahlon Ruth 4:10.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ruth 1:4. And they took them wives — The Targum very properly observes, that they transgressed the decree of the word of the Lord, and took to themselves strange women.