biography
| biography:
| Biblical character described in the Book of Ruth as a woman from Moab who, after the death of her husband, refused to abandon her widowed mother-in-law Naomi, accompanying her back to Naomi's home town of Bethlehem. Her loyalty was rewarded when Naomi managed to arrange Ruth's marriage to Boaz, a wealthy kinsman of Naomi's deceased husband, and their son was said to be the grandfather of David. |
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