OT Survey Ruth

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Scene 1: From Moab to Bethlehem Ruth Returns with Naomi

Modern Pledges: “You be strong, you survive... You stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far, I will find you.”  – Last of the Mohicans

Modern Pledges: "No retreat. No surrender. That is Spartan law. And by Spartan law we will stand and fight, and die. A new age has begun. An age of freedom. And, all will know that three hundred Spartans gave their last breath to defend it." –300

“I’ll always want you. Forever.” -- Bella Swan, Twilight Modern Pledges: “I’ll always want you. Forever.” -- Bella Swan, Twilight “I love you. I will always love you, no matter what happens now.” “I won’t leave you.” -- Edward Cullen, Twilight

But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me.” Ruth 1:16-17

Scene 2: In the field of Boaz Boaz helps Ruth

“When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the alien. I am the Lord your God.” Leviticus 19:9-10

Boaz asked the foreman of his harvesters, “Whose young woman is that?” The foreman replied, “She is the Moabitess who came back from Moab with Naomi. She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves behind the harvesters.’ She went into the field and has worked steadily from morning till now, except for a short rest in the shelter.”

So Boaz said to Ruth, “My daughter, listen to me So Boaz said to Ruth, “My daughter, listen to me. Don’t go and glean in another field and don’t go away from here. Stay here with my servant girls. Watch the field where the men are harvesting, and follow along after the girls. I have told the men not to touch you. And whenever you are thirsty, go and get a drink from the water jars the men have filled.” At this, she bowed down with her face to the ground. She exclaimed, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you notice me—a foreigner?”

Boaz replied, “I’ve been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband—how you left your father and mother and your homeland and came to live with a people you did not know before. May the Lord repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.” Ruth 2:5-12

Scene 3: On the threshing floor Ruth and Boaz engaged

One day Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, should I not try to find a home for you, where you will be well provided for? Is not Boaz, with whose servant girls you have been, a kinsman of ours? Tonight he will be winnowing barley on the threshing floor. Wash and perfume yourself, and put on your best clothes. Then go down to the threshing floor, but don’t let him know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking. When he lies down, note the place where he is lying. Then go and uncover his feet and lie down. He will tell you what to do.” Ruth 3:1-4

Threshing Floor – A threshing floor is a stone patio set on a hill Threshing Floor – A threshing floor is a stone patio set on a hill. Here grain is beaten out to separate the head from the husk. This threshing floor is located near Bethlehem.

Scene 4: At the Bethlehem city gate Boaz and Ruth marry