Ruth 1:4
1:4 So her sons
married
Moabite women. (One was named Orpah and the other Ruth.)
And they continued to live there about ten years.
Ruth 1:8-9
1:8 Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Listen to me! Each of you should return to your mother’s home!
May the
Lord show
you
the same kind of devotion that you have shown to your deceased husbands
and to me!
1:9 May the
Lord enable each of you to find
security
in the home of a new husband!”
Then she kissed them goodbye and they wept loudly.
Ruth 3:11
3:11 Now, my dear, don’t worry!
I intend to do for you everything you propose,
for everyone in the village
knows that you are a worthy woman.
Ruth 3:14
3:14 So she slept beside him
until morning. She woke up while it was still dark.
Boaz thought,
“No one must know that a woman visited the threshing floor.”
Ruth 4:5
4:5 Then Boaz said, “When
you acquire the field
from Naomi,
you must also
acquire Ruth the Moabite,
the wife of our deceased relative,
in order to preserve his family name by raising up a descendant who will inherit his property.”
Ruth 4:13-14
A Grandson is Born to Naomi
4:13 So Boaz married Ruth and had sexual relations with her. The Lord enabled her to conceive and she gave birth to a son.
4:14 The village women said to Naomi, “May the Lord be praised because he has not left you without a guardian today! May he become famous in Israel!