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168 GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE ENTER THE PROMISED LAND
THE FIELD OF Booz
nor sons take care of her. She told them to stay in Moab and nd husbands among their own people.
Orpha kissed her mother-in-law and went back, but Ruth stayed with her. She said, ''Tell me not to leave thee and to turn back. Where thou goest, I will go; and where thou stayest, I will stay. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Only death shall separate me from thee."
Vhen Noemi saw that Ruth was determined to go
with her, .she ceased to
together until they came to Bethlehem.
It was the beginning of the barley harvest. Noemi ยท gleansin knew a relative of her husband-a very rich man the eld whose name was Booz. Now, there was a law among the Israelites that when a man died and left behind him a widow and no children, his nearest relative might marry his widow and raise up children in his stead. Ruth said to Noe . ''Let me go, I pray, into
Ruth
her. They walked along
