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Ruth
   Name Means "Friendship" or "Refreshment."
   Home Born in Moab, but relocated with her mother-in-law Naomi to Bethlehem in Judah after the death of her husband.
   Family Was the wife and widow of Mahlon; remarried Boaz by an extension of levirate marriage; gave birth to a son, Obed, who figuratively was called the son of Naomi; was an ancestor of David and Jesus Christ.
   Occupation Originally a homemaker, later a maidservant of Boaz; and finally a homemaker again.
   Best Known For Insisting that her mother-in-law Naomi allow her to come to Bethlehem, in order that Naomi's people, the Israelites, could become Ruth's people, and Naomi's God could become Ruth's God.

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