Ruth 1:20
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She said to them, "Don't call me Naomi, call me Mara; for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
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Get a full Reformed explanation of this passageBethlehem was Naomi’s Judean hometown, where she returned after years away and where her grief became visible to the community. Moab lay east of the Dead Sea; it was the foreign land where Naomi’s husband and sons died, shaping her bitter self-description upon returning.
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Ruth 1:20 mentions Bethlehem and Moab.
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