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Ruth was a destitute foreigner who came to believe in Israel’s God and was welcomed into his redeemed people. By grace she was privileged to become an ancestor of Jesus Christ, the Savior of all peoples. The commentary focuses on the themes of God’s covenant; God’s loyalty, reflected in the lives of his faithful people; the theology of missions and evangelism; and the promise of eternal life.

us appreciate its message as a whole, what is really essential is for us, with the historic church, to accept it as God’s inspired and authoritative Word, fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Of singular importance for the interpretation of the entire story is the rendering of one word in Ruth 4:5b, the perfect of the verb קָנָה, “to acquire.” The Masoretic Text includes two variant readings for this word. According to the Masoretic Qere, which is followed by most English versions and commentators,
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