A foreign widow gleans in the field of a kinsman. A midnight scene on a threshing floor. A redemption at the city gate. A baby in the arms of a grandmother who had renamed herself Bitter.

In this letter

- Walking the four chapters of Ruth

- Davaq (H1692) — Ruth's clinging, the same Hebrew word as Genesis 2:24

- Bethlehem as house of bread, the irony of the famine

- The gleaning law (Lev 19:9-10, Deut 24:19)

- Boaz's hesed toward Ruth in the field

- Under your wing — Boaz's prayer becomes Ruth's request

- The threshing floor scene, slow

- The redemption at the city gate

- Obed, Jesse, David

Scripture

- Ruth 1-4 (full)

- Genesis 2:24 (the davaq parallel)

- Leviticus 19:9-10 (gleaning law, ...