<p class="bodytext">Eliel the Mahavite,p> <p class="bodytext">and Jeribai and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam,p> <p class="bodytext">and Ithmah the Moabite,p>

These people, as well as the Anakites, are also considered Rephaites;<n id="1" /> the Moabites call them Emites.

The conspirators were Zabad son of Shimeath (an Ammonite woman) and Jehozabad son of Shimrith (a Moabite woman).p>

<p class="bodytext">Also in those days I saw the men of Judah who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

<p class="bodytext">An Ammonite or Moabite<n id="1" /> may not enter the assembly of the <sc>Lordsc>; to the tenth generation none of their descendants shall ever<n id="2" /> do so,<n id="3" />

So her sons<n id="1" /> married<n id="2" /> Moabite women. (One was named Orpah and the other Ruth.)<n id="3" /> And they continued to live there about ten years.

So Naomi returned, accompanied by her Moabite daughter-in-law Ruth, who came back with her from the region of Moab.<n id="1" /> (Now they<n id="2" /> arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.)<n id="3" />p>

The servant in charge of the harvesters replied, &#8220;She&#8217;s the young Moabite woman who came back with Naomi from the region of Moab.

Then Boaz said, &#8220;When<n id="1" /> you acquire the field<n id="2" /> from Naomi,<n id="3" /> you must also<n id="4" /> acquire Ruth the Moabite,<n id="5" /> the wife of our deceased relative,<n id="6" /> in order to preserve his family name by raising up a descendant who will inherit his property.&#8221;<n id="7" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">King Solomon fell in love with many foreign women (besides Pharaoh&#8217;s daughter), including Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites.

just as the descendants of Esau who live at Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I cross the Jordan to the land the <sc>Lordsc> our God is giving us.&#8221;

One day Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, &#8220;Let me go<n id="1" /> to the fields so I can gather<n id="2" /> grain behind whoever permits me to do so.&#8221;<n id="3" /> Naomi<n id="4" /> replied, &#8220;You may go, my daughter.&#8221;

Ruth the Moabite replied, &#8220;He even<n id="1" /> told me, &#8216;You may go along beside my servants<n id="2" /> until they have finished gathering all my harvest!&#8217;&#8221;<n id="3" />

I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, the wife of Mahlon, as my wife to raise up a descendant who will inherit his property<n id="1" /> so the name of the deceased might not disappear<n id="2" /> from among his relatives and from his village.<n id="3" /> You are witnesses today.&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now when these things had been completed, the leaders approached me and said, &#8220;The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves from the local residents<n id="1" /> who practice detestable things similar to those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

<t /><p class="bodytext">On that day the book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing<n id="1" /> of the people. They found<n id="2" /> written in it that no Ammonite or Moabite may ever enter the assembly of God,