In diebus unius judicis, quando judices præerant, facta est fames in terra. Abiitque homo de Bethlehem Juda, ut peregrinaretur in regione Moabitide cum uxore sua ac duobus liberis.
In the days of the judges, when the judges ruled, there came a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem Juda, went to sojourn in the land of Moab with his wife and his two sons.
In dies de uno de iudice, quando iudices praesume, facto es fame in terra. Et homine i ab de Bethleheme Iuda, ut peregrinor in regione Moabitide cum uxore suo et duo liberi.