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Her name means friend or companion.
Who is Ruth?
Because of a famine, Elimelech and Naomi, left their home town and moved to this place.
What is Moab?
What is uncovering his feet?
The number of chapters in the Book of Ruth.
What is four?
Daughter-in-law of Naomi who chose to return to her own people.
Once her husband and sons died, Naomi planned to return to this place.
What is Bethlehem - in the land of Judah?
This was done to demonstrate a legal agreement - a contract made over land transaction.
What is the act of giving a sandal?
When Naomi returned to Bethlehem, she was bitter and she asked the people to call her by this new name.
What is Mara?
This is the author who wrote the book of Ruth.
What is Unknown?
A wealthy landowner that was a relative to Naomi and became a kinsman-redeemer.
Who is Boaz?
After they returned to Naomi's home land, Ruth went to this place to get them food.
What is Boaz's field?
The act (what is it called) by which Ruth gathered leftover grain in the fields to provide for herself and Naomi.
What is gleaning?
The primary reason the first kinsman-redeemer refused to marry Ruth.
What is that he would risk his own inheritance and be at a disadvantage financially.
The Moabites were descendants of this individual through an act involving his daughter and fleeing Sodom and Gomorrah.
Who was Lot?
His name meant "My God is King".
Who is Elimelech?
This is where Ruth went at night to privately ask Boaz to be her husband.
What is the threshing floor?
This legal custom required a close relative to marry the widow of a deceased kinsman and preserve his lineage.
What is Levirate Marriage?
The ultimate significance of Ruth and Boaz's lineage in the greater biblical narrative - a greater lineage was preserved.
What is that they are the family line of Jesus.
The book of Ruth is specifically set during this turbulent period of Israelite history, before the time of the Kings.
What are the times of the Judges?
He was born at the end of the book, but he would become the father of Jesse and grandfather to King David.
Who is Obed?
This is a place where official business transactions took place in the city.
What is the city gate?
What is kinsman-redeemer?
The time of the year (what season does the Bible say it was) when Ruth and Naomi returned to Bethlehem, marking the start of Ruth's encounter with Boaz.
What is the beginning of the Barley Harvest?
The story emphasizes God's providence and covenant in a time characterized by this repeated phrase..."In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did ...(finish the phrase).
What is "what was right in his own eyes" ?