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Ruth
A Moabite widow whose loyalty to Naomi and faith in Israel’s God brought her into the line of David and Jesus.
Ruth refused to leave her mother-in-law Naomi—‘your people will be my people, and your God my God’—and gleaned in the fields of Boaz.
Boaz redeemed and married her, and their great-grandson was King David, placing Ruth in the ancestry of the Messiah.
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