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Ruth opens with “Three Widows on the Road” and carries its history toward “A Sandal and a Son.” Famine drives a family to Moab and kills the men there. The nearer kinsman wants the land until he hears the widow comes with it.
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Ruth 1
Famine drives a family to Moab and kills the men there. Naomi turns back toward Bethlehem empty and tells her daughters in law to go home. One obeys. The other refuses in words that outlast her: whither thou goest, I will go.
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Ruth 2
Ruth goes out to pick up what the harvesters drop, which is the law’s provision for the poor, and happens into the field of a man named Boaz. He has already heard what she did for Naomi, and he tells his men to let grain fall on purpose.
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Ruth 3
Naomi sends her to the winnowing floor at night, and Ruth asks a startled man to spread his skirt over her and be the kinsman he is. He agrees, and names the obstacle: there is a nearer one.
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Ruth 4
The nearer kinsman wants the land until he hears the widow comes with it. A sandal changes hands at the gate, Boaz redeems both, and the women of Bethlehem name the child. He is Obed, and David comes from him.
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