Ruth

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Ruth

• The Romance of Redemption

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Date of Writing

• The story takes place in the days when the judges
  governed (Ruth 11).
• Ruth 47 speaks of a custom in former times in
  Israel.
• David is mentioned at the end of the book

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Moab
No Ammonite or Moabite shall enter the assembly
of the Lord none of their descendants, even to
the tenth generation, shall ever enter the
assembly of the Lord, 4 because they did not meet
you with food and water on the way when you came
out of Egypt, and because they hired against you
Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of
Mesopotamia, to curse you. (Deuteronomy 233-4).

• Bethlehem

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Ruth 119

• 19 So they both went until they came to
  Bethlehem. And it came about when they had come
  to Bethlehem, that all the city was stirred
  because of them, and the women said, "Is this
  Naomi?"
• 20 And she said to them, "Do not call me Naomi
  call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very
  bitterly with me. 21 I went out full, but the
  LORD has brought me back empty. Why do you call
  me Naomi, since the LORD has witnessed against me
  and the Almighty has afflicted me?"

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• Land ownership and the law
• Levirate Marriage
• Kinsman Redeemer

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Then the women said to Naomi, Blessed is the
Lord who has not left you without a redeemer
today, and may his name become famous in Israel.
(Ruth 414).
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