The Book Of Ruth

The book of Ruth opens to when there was a problem with a Jewish family. A famine that just stroke Bethlehem where it forces Elimelech and his wife Naomi, to move to Moab with their two sons to find food. They traveled into Moab and opened up a shop, ate some food, and lived there for nearly ten years. Moab is where their two sons find and marry these local girls named Oprah and Ruth where there life went really swell. Elimelech and his two sons die, and leaves Naomi, Ruth, and Oprah manless, lonely, and left them needing help. Naomi decided to head back to Bethlehem, and Ruth and Oprah wanted to join her. Naomi doesn’t want them to come and begs and insists for the girls to stay behind, while Oprah is convinced, Ruth gives her devotion to Naomi, leaving her God and her people to become part of Naomi’s life. Ruth’s stubbornness makes her travel back to Bethlehem with Naomi. In Bethlehem, things are not going too good for them. Naomi feels out of it and down while Ruth is reduced to gleaning in the barely fields. This is where Ruth runs into a well-known wealthy man named Boaz, who takes a liking to her and offers special privileges of sweet gleaning. Boaz is also a relative to Naomi’s late husband which becomes important because Boaz would have the obligation to marry Ruth and provide for her and her family. When Naomi hears about Boaz she plans for Ruth to make him as her husband. She then tells Ruth to “visit Boaz at night in secret and lie at his feet.” (The Source Bible)
Ruth then does what Naomi asks and Boaz is surprised on how a girl from the fields is interested in him. After Ruth visiting him, Boaz tells Naomi that he would love and wouldn’t mind marrying her, but there were other relatives who had closer ties to her in-laws then he did. Boaz then sets out to meet the guy that had closer relation and left everyone puzzled on who Ruth will eventually end up marrying. They end up finding out, that there relative was just interested in