Thematic Bible: Ruth , the woman of constancy, characteristics of


Thematic Bible



And she kept close by the maidens of Boaz to glean until the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest. And she lived with her mother-in-law.

And the servant who was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the girl from Moab who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab. And she said, Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves. And she came, and has kept on from the morning until now, but that she stayed a little in the house.


And Ruth said, Do not beg me to leave you, to return from following after you. For where you go, I will go. Where you stay, I will stay. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.


And now, my daughter, do not fear. I will do to you all that you ask. For all the city of my people knows that you are a woman of virtue.


And she said to her, All that you say, I will do.