Ruth 1:9
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Yahweh grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voice, and wept.
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Get a full Reformed explanation of this passageMoab was the land east of the Dead Sea where Naomi’s family had lived during a famine; Bethlehem was her home town in Judah, to which she was returning. The contrast frames Naomi’s farewell to her Moabite daughters-in-law and anticipates Ruth’s costly decision to join her.
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Ruth 1:9 mentions Bethlehem and Moab.
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