Ruth and Orpah initially resist leaving Naomi, but Orpah relents and returns home. Ruth, however, clings to Naomi and presses her to stay with her. Ruth vows to remain with Naomi and invokes Naomi’s ...

Orpah did the logical, sensible thing; she kissed Naomi goodbye and turned back toward Moab. Ruth reacted illogically.

Naomi releases her daughters-in-law from their customary obligation to look after their mother-in-law, and one, Orpah, decides to stay in familiar Moab. Ruth, on the other hand, leaves her home ...

But tragedy hits the family. The mother of the two sons, Naomi, loses her husband and then her sons so she and her two daughters-in-law, Orpah and Ruth, are left widows.

After her husband and her two sons die, Naomi implores Ruth and her other daughter-in-law, Orpah, to return “each of you to your mother’s house.

Orpah was born Feb. 19, 1909, in Britton, S.D., to Hedwig Benz and David Kimball Willison as the second of nine children. All her siblings, except baby brother Gene Willison predeceased her. Her ...

Orpah agrees, but Ruth declares she will never forsake Naomi and accompanies her mother-in-law back to Israel. Her faithfulness is rewarded when Naomi’s kinsman, Boaz, falls in love with Ruth ...