Ruth 2:2
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Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor. She said to her, Go, my daughter.
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Get a full Reformed explanation of this passageBethlehem was a small Judean town, Naomi’s ancestral home, where she and Ruth had returned after famine and bereavement. Moab, east of the Dead Sea, was Ruth’s homeland; her move from Moab to Bethlehem highlights her attachment to Naomi and sets the scene for her gleaning in Israel.
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Ruth 2:2 mentions Bethlehem and Moab.
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