- A Moabite woman
- Widow of Mahlon
- Daughter-in-law to Naomi
What did she do?
- Left her people and their gods
- Followed Naomi back to Bethlehem
- Found favor with her kinsman, Boaz
- Married Boaz
Why was she important?
- Her story is an example of loyalty and duty, among other things
- She was the great-grandmother of King David
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"But Ruth replied, 'Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay i will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me.'" (Ruth 1:16-17).
