Ruth 2:6

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The servant who was set over the reapers answered, It is the Moabite lady who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:

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Bethlehem was a town in Judah, Naomi’s ancestral home and the setting of Boaz’s fields. Moab lay east of the Dead Sea; Ruth’s Moabite origin explains the servant’s identification of her as the foreign woman who had returned with Naomi.

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Ruth 2:6 mentions Bethlehem and Moab.

Bethlehem · Berthold Werner
Moab · Adeeb Atwan

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