For the Tonga, who are patrilocal and practice the custom of giving “bridewealth” (lobola) whereby the wife’s clan is “compensated” for her physical loss to the group, it is normal to hear that Ruth and Orpah were going to accompany Naomi on her return to her homeland. There they would be married to the near relatives of their deceased husbands. If they had refused to go along, their fathers would be compelled to return the bridewealth, especially since these marriages had not really been “established,” as there were apparently no children involved in either case. This situation would not be as customary among the Chewa, who are matrilocal (at least during the early years of a marriage) and who do not observe the bridewealth tradition.

While it is normal to attribute the “giving of food” to God, it would be most unusual to hear that he had “visited his people.”
According to traditional belief, God lives, estranged from man, far away in the sky. The Hebrew verb in this context refers to Yahweh’s gracious care for his people; i.e., he “blessed” them “by giving them good crops” (Good News Bible).

Source: Wendland 1987, p. 168.