Ruth 1:6
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 how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread. 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 how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread.
Ruth is a four-chapter pastoral story set in the time of the judges, in and near the close of that period. About ten years earlier Elimelech had taken Naomi and their sons from Bethlehem to live in Moab, east of the Jordan, because famine in the land of Israel had driven the family from Judah. While in Moab the sons married the Moabite women Orpah and Ruth, and then Elimelech and the two sons, Mahlon and Chilion, died there, leaving Naomi poor and without a son to preserve the family name.
The verse marks the start of Naomi's decision to arise with her daughters-in-law and return from Moab to her former home and inheritance in Bethlehem in Judah. She returned because she had heard in Moab how the Lord had visited His people in giving them bread, that He had again provided food for them and everything was prosperous there. The end of the famine is the reason for her return, which shows the Lord's care in again providing food for His people and sets the stage for Ruth's story.
Both daughters-in-law at first started out with her and proposed to go with her, but Naomi used every argument to dissuade them. She told them they would do better to remain with their own people, since she had no more sons and was too old to marry again. Ruth chose to go with Naomi to Bethlehem, giving her a last ray of hope because she still had kinsmen there. Ruth later married a kinsman of Naomi and became the mother of Obed, grandfather of David, so that a Moabite woman enters the family line through which Jesus is shown to descend from Abraham, as the book's closing genealogy brings her into the ancestry of Jesus.