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The Book of Ruth is not the longest of the books of the Bible—it contains only four chapters of text. Yet its significance is immense. Ruth was a young woman from Moab, who came to be part of the covenant community of God’s people. Consequently, she is one of only a handful of women mentioned in the genealogy of Christ: she begins as a stranger to God’s people, and ends up as a mother of God’s...

saving and redemptive purpose. She is domesticated in the line of Abraham, and becomes the mother of Jacob, through whom God will continue to reveal his saving purpose to the world. The Book of Ruth is also a great love story with a similar theme. It is contextualised within the Mosaic covenant, written against the backdrop of the law code which God gave to his people. The law revealed to them the nature of sin against God, and acted like a fence within which God’s covenant people might enjoy the
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