June 2 – Refined and Redeemed

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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rooted in scripture and relevant
for today, June 2nd.

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Refined and redeemed.
Have you ever been in a season

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where it felt like everything
was being tested?

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Your patience, your faith, your
sense of who you even are?

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Like life just kept turning up
the heat and you had no idea

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when it was going to let up.
That pressure is real and the

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Bible doesn’t pretend it isn’t.
Proverbs chapter 17, verses 3 to

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4 says the Crucible is for
silver and the furnace is for

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gold, and the Lord tests hearts.
Now think about that for a

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second.
A Crucible is an intense heat

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that burns away impurities so
that what’s left is pure,

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valuable, and strong.
And the verse is saying that’s

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what God does with us.
He doesn’t put us in the fire to

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destroy us, He puts us in the
fire to refine us, to burn off

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the stuff that doesn’t belong,
to reveal what we’re really made

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of.
That’s not an easy truth, but it

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is a hopeful 1.
Psalm 63, verses 3 and 4.

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Give us something to hold onto
in those moments, because your

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steadfast love is better than
life.

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My lips will praise you, so I
will bless you.

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As long as I live in your name.
I will lift up my hands.

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David wrote this in a dry and
weary wilderness, Literally.

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He was hiding, exhausted,
uncertain about his future.

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And yet in the middle of all of
that, he was able to say, God,

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your love is better than life
itself.

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That’s not denial.
That’s depth of faith.

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That’s someone who has learned
to find God even in the furnace.

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And then there’s Ruth’s story
picking back up in Ruth chapter

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4.
Remember, she had lost her

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husband, She followed her
mother-in-law into an uncertain

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future.
She worked in someone else’s

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fields just to survive.
And yet God was writing a

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redemption story the whole time.
In Ruth chapter 4 verses 14 and

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15, the women say to Naomi,
Blessed be the Lord, who has not

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left you this day without a
Redeemer.

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He shall be.
To you, a restorer of life and a

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nourisher of your old age, what
looked like loss became legacy.

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What looked like the end became
a new beginning.

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Here’s the thing about hard
seasons.

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They rarely make sense while
you’re in them.

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You can’t see what God is
building when you’re in the

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middle of the breaking, but that
doesn’t mean he isn’t working.

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The furnace isn’t a sign that
God has abandoned you.

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It might actually be a sign that
He trusts you with something

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deeper.
You might be going through

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something right now that feels
like it’s too much.

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Relationship drama, family
stress, pressure at school,

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disappointment that just won’t
let up and you’re wondering when

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it’s going to end.
Can I encourage you?

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Just like fire transforms raw
gold into something beautiful,

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God can use every hard moment to
shape your character deep in

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your faith and lead you into
something better than what you

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could have planned for yourself.
Don’t give up in the furnace.

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The refining is happening.
Let’s pray.

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Heavenly Father, thank you for
using even the hard moments in

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our lives to grow our faith and
draw us closer to You.

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We don’t always understand the
fire, but we trust the One who

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holds us in it.
Help us to find joy in Your

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steadfast love, even in
difficult seasons, and give us

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the courage to believe that you
are writing a redemption story

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even when we can’t see it yet.
In Jesus name, Amen.

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relentless, and too heavy to

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name, your prayers do not have
to fall silent.

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When the pressure is real and
the path feels narrow, stand

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firm.
Pray clearly.

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Remember that God hears his
people in the middle of the

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Proverbs chapter 17 verses 3 to
4 world English Bible The

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refining pot is for silver and
the furnace for gold, but Yahweh

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tests the hearts and evildoer
heeds wicked lips, a liar gives

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ear to a mischievous tongue.
Psalm Chapter 63 World English

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Bible God, you are my God.
I will earnestly seek you.

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My soul thirsts for you.
My flesh longs for you in a dry

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and weary land where there is no
water.

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So I have seen you in the
sanctuary, watching your power

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and your glory, Because your
loving kindness is better than

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life.
My lips shall praise you so I

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will bless you while I live.
I will lift up my hands in your

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name.
My soul shall be satisfied as

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with the richest food.
My mouth shall praise you with

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joyful lips when I remember you
on my bed and think about you in

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the night.
Watches for you have been my

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help.
I will rejoice in the shadow of

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your wings.
My soul stays close to you.

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Your right hand holds me up.
But those who seek my soul to

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destroy it shall go into the
lower parts of the earth.

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They shall be given over to the
power of the sword.

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They shall be Jackal food.
But the king shall rejoice in

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God.
Everyone who swears by him will

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praise him, for the mouth of
those who speak lies shall be

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silenced.
Ruth Chapters 3 to 4 World

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English Bible Naomi, her
mother-in-law said to her, My

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daughter, shall I not seek rest
for you, that it may be well

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with you now?
His bows are kinsmen with whose

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maidens you were.
Behold, he will be winnowing

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barley tonight on the thrashing
floor.

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Therefore wash yourself, anoint
yourself, get dressed and go

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down to the thrashing floor.
But don’t make yourself known to

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the man until he has finished
eating and drinking.

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It shall be when he lies down
that you shall note the place

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where he is lying.
Then you shall go in, uncover

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his feet, and lay down.
Then he will tell you what to

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do.
She said to her.

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All that you say I will do.
She went down to the thrashing

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floor and did everything that
her mother-in-law told her.

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When Bose had eaten and drunk,
and his heart was merry, he went

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to lie down at the end of the
heap of grain.

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She came softly, uncovered his
feet, and laid down at midnight.

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The man was startled and turned
himself, and behold, a woman lay

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at his feet.
He said, Who are you?

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She answered, I am Ruth your
servant.

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Therefore spread the corner of
your garment over your servant,

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for you are a near kinsman.
He said, You are blessed by

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Yahweh.
My daughter, you have shown more

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kindness in the latter end than
at the beginning, because you

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didn’t follow young men, whether
poor or rich.

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Now, my daughter, don’t be
afraid, I will do to you all

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that you say, for all the city
of my people knows that you are

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a worthy woman.
Now it is true that I am a near

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kinsman.
However, there is a kinsman

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nearer than I.
Stay this night and in the

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morning.
If you will perform for you the

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part of a kinsman, good, let him
do the kinsman’s duty.

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But if he will not do the duty
of a kinsman for you, then I

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will do the duty of a kinsman
for you.

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As Yahweh lives, Lie down until
the morning.

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She lay at his feet until the
morning.

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Then she rose up before 1 could
discern another.

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For he said let it not be known
that the woman came to the

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thrashing floor.
He said bring the mantle that is

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on you and hold it.
She held it and he measured 6

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measures of barley and laid it
on her.

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Then he went into the city.
When she came to her

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mother-in-law, she said how did
it go my daughter?

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She told her all that the man
had done for her.

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She said he gave me these six
measures of barley, for he said,

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don’t go empty to your
mother-in-law.

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Then she said, wait my daughter,
until you know what will happen,

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for the man will not rest until
he has settled this today.

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Now Bose went up to the gate and
sat down there.

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Behold, the near kinsman of whom
Bose spoke came by.

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Bose said to him, come over here
friend, and sit down.

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He came over and sat down.
Bose took ten men of the elders

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of the city and said, Sit down
here and they sat down.

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He said to the near kinsman
Naomi, who has come back out of

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the country of Moab, is selling
the parcel of land which was our

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brother Elimelech.
SI thought I should tell you,

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saying, Buy it before those who
sit here and before the elders

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of my people.
If you will redeem it, redeem

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it.
But if you will not redeem it,

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then tell me that I may know,
for there is no one to redeem it

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besides you, and I am after you.
He said I will redeem it.

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Then Bose said, On the day you
buy the field from the hand of

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Naomi, you must buy it also from
Ruth the Moabite us, the wife of

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the dead, to raise up the name
of the dead on his inheritance.

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The near kinsman said, I can’t
redeem it for myself lest I

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endanger my own inheritance.
Take my right of redemption for

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yourself, for I can’t redeem it.
Now.

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This was the custom in former
time in Israel concerning

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redeeming and concerning
exchanging, to confirm all

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things.
A man took off his sandal and

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gave it to his neighbor, and
this was the way of formalizing

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transactions in Israel.
So the near kinsman said to

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bows, Buy it for yourself.
Then he took off his sandal.

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Bows said to the elders and to
all the people, You are

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witnesses today that I have
bought all that was a limelech S

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and all that was Chileans and
Malons from the hand of Naomi.

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Moreover, Ruth the Moabite S the
wife of Malon I have purchased

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to be my wife to raise up the
name of the dead on his

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inheritance, that the name of
the dead may not be cut off from

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among his brothers and from the
gate of his place.

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You are witnesses today, all the
people who were in the gate and

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the elders said We are
witnesses.

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May Yahweh make the woman who
has come into your house like

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Rachel and like Lee, which both
built the House of Israel, and

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treat you worthily in Ephratha,
and be famous in Bethlehem.

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Let your house be like the House
of Perez, whom Tamer bore to

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Judah, of the offspring which
Yahweh will give you by this

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young woman.
So bows took Ruth and she became

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his wife and he went into her
and Yahweh enabled her to

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conceive and she bore a son.
The women said to Naomi, Blessed

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be Yahweh, who has not left you
today without a near kinsman,

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Let his name be famous in
Israel.

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He shall be to you a restorer of
life and sustain you in your old

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age.
For your daughter-in-law who

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loves you, who is better to you
than seven sons, has given birth

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to him.
Naomi took the child, laid him

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in her bosom and became nurse to
him.

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The women, her neighbors gave
him a name saying A son is born

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to Naomi.
They named him Obed.

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He is the father of Jesse, the
father of David.

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Now this is the history of the
generations of Perez.

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Perez became the father of
Hezron, and Hezron became the

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father of Ram.
And Ram became the father of

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Amanadab.
And Amanadab became the father

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of Nashan.
And Nashan became the father of

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Salmon.
And Salmon became the father of

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Bose, and Bose became the father
of Obed, and Obed became the

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father of Jesse, and Jesse
became the father of David.

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Until next time, stay rooted in
truth, anchored in hope, and

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walking daily with Jesus.