In the days of one 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.
Awo olwatuuka mu nnaku abalamuzi ze baalamuliramu, enjala n'egwa mu nsi. Awo omusajja ow'e Besirekemuyuda n'agenda okutuula mu nsi ya Mowaabu, ye ne mukazi we, ne batabani be bombi.