Long after the Israelites had settled in the land
God gave them, another famine struck. An Israelite woman named Naomi
moved with her husband and two sons to the land of Moab to find food. Her
sons married Moabite women. Then Naomi's husband and both sons died, so
she prepared to send her daughters-in-law back to their own families and to go
back to the land of Israel alone. One of her daughters-in-law, Ruth,
insisted on going with her, however. She said, "Where you go, I will
go; where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God
my God." So Ruth went with Naomi into the land of Israel, and there
she met a relative of Naomi, named Boaz, as she was gathering grain in his fields.
Ruth and Boaz were married, and their firstborn son was grandfather to the
great king David.
The Book of Ruth
Potential ornament for the Jesse Tree: a stalk of grain, ear of corn
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