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Who Was Elimelech?what did he do when there was a famine in Israel? The Bible story

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Elimelech was Ruth's husband and father to Mahlon and Chilion. A man from the Judah tribe and lived in Bethlehem. when a severe famine occurred in Judea, he emigrated his family to Moab where his sons married two moabite women and he and his sons later died.
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