1 In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.
1 Emasikwini lawa vaavanyisi+ a va endla vululami ha wona, ku we ndlala+ etikweni, wanuna un'wana a suka eBetlehema+ wa Yuda a ya luvela emasin'wini ya Mowabu,+ yena ni nsati wakwe ni vana vakwe va majaha vambirhi.