The Regular Guys Bible Study
The Regular Guys Bible Study podcast -- RGBS -- is a podcast for regular guys by regular guys (not theologians) studying the Bible together. It's brought to you by a couple of goofy guys who just want to study the Bible together and show you that anyone can read and study the Bible. In fact, you SHOULD read and study the Bible yourself. We're here to show you how we do it, and, hopefully, we can have some fun along the way.
The Regular Guys Bible Study
Ruth 1
What if a story from ancient times could provide fresh insights into our everyday challenges? That's exactly what Ken and Steve set out to discover as they kick off season six of our podcast with a light-hearted exploration of the Book of Ruth. We promise you'll uncover the timeless qualities of loyalty and faithfulness that Ruth embodies—a Moabite widow who chooses to stand by her Israelite mother-in-law, Naomi. Along the way, expect a sprinkle of humor and personal anecdotes that make this biblical journey relatable and fun.
Ever wonder about the connection between Oprah Winfrey and the Bible? We unravel this surprising tidbit while sharing the poignant moments that lead Ruth to pledge her unwavering loyalty to Naomi. Our chat dives into the historical backdrop between the Jews and Moabites and the tragic events that shape Ruth's story. As we explore the cultural context, we ponder Naomi's prospects and Ruth's motivations with insights that bring a fresh perspective to an age-old narrative.
Join us as we accompany Naomi and Ruth on their return to Bethlehem. Feel the stir of the town upon their arrival and Naomi's raw expression of misfortune. This episode closes with a look at Chapter One of Ruth, setting the stage for the next chapter. We encourage you to stick around for more discussions about this incredible story, which continues to resonate deeply with our lives today.
you are listening to the regular guys bible study podcast, the bible study for regular guys by regular guys. We are your host, ken and steve and we are just regular guys studying the bible together, not theologians Ken and Steve and we are just regular guys studying the Bible together. Not theologians. Wow, yeah, that was really good rhythm.
Speaker 2:I'm surprised you're not better than that, Ken. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, everybody knows. Everybody who knows me, steve knows I have some rhythm. That was awful. Well, maybe you should try harder next time. It wasn't me, steve, and you know it.
Speaker 2:You're really being ruthless good one so you were waiting for that? I was, yes, that one planned all right.
Speaker 1:Well, if that was not clue enough, welcome to season four what season is this? Six Welcome to season six guys.
Speaker 2:And we are going to do a short Old Testament book called Ruth and hopefully you won't find it worthless, worthless. Well, you said just a minute ago that you were struggling with what to say.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I do struggle what to say with Ruth.
Speaker 2:It's not worthless. But you know Well, I was trying to play off of the ruthless.
Speaker 1:Okay. Well, that wasn't a good play because you didn't get it. No, because to say ruthless and then call this worthless, that's like I mean, that's just, that's pretty bad and it's certainly not worthless. This is a great story.
Speaker 2:I love this story. Oh, that is a good story. I was more saying you.
Speaker 1:I might be worthless.
Speaker 2:Yes or ruthless.
Speaker 1:I will be ruthless with my worthlessness, all right. So, steve, you seem a little cranky today, are you a little cranky?
Speaker 2:I just the end of the day. I was doing a bunch of stuff and running out of time before you got here. Yeah, yeah. In fact, I was eating dinner when you walked in.
Speaker 1:I know it really irritated me that you didn't offer me anything to eat.
Speaker 2:Huh.
Speaker 1:You want some? No, no, I actually ate. I I had plenty of time to eat. You know when. What happened? When I got home? I mean, no, I was home already. I worked from home today, did you work?
Speaker 2:from home. I did you probably stop around three though uh, let me think.
Speaker 1:What time did I stop? No, it wasn't. Do you know what I was doing? From three to five the fact that you had to think about. I was joking. Do you know what I was doing? From three to five sleeping. No, I was going through resumes. Oh, you know our stupid system. It's horrible. It's the worst resume system at all of all and um. So I was just going through resumes.
Speaker 2:I, out of like 40, I got two that were decent maybe and you can only like write down the names of the people you can't even position the ones you've looked at, so that the next time you go in hey, did I do this one already, I know I know it is so ridiculous.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and no one cares um and you know what. Who else doesn't care? Skyworks, that's who we work for, steve. You're not supposed to say that I don't think um sky worksiness, but I was gonna say, actually, the people listening to us, there aren't any how can they care?
Speaker 1:Anyway, after that, though, my wife came home, we rode bikes, then she made me dinner. I ate dinner. We watched our special show, wheel of Fortune. Okay, you know, you know, you get to a certain age and you don't realize you're at that certain age, until you realize that you're watching Wheel of Fortune every day, and that you're eating dinner at 4.30 in the afternoon. Okay, no, we ate at 6. Oh, we ate at 6. Yeah, because we rode our bikes, we took showers and then, you know what I mean there was lots of soap involved.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And water. Then guess what? A towel. That's exactly right. Then we ate. Then we watched Wheel of Fortune. Actually, we ate while we watched Wheel of Fortune.
Speaker 2:How far did you ride, Ken?
Speaker 1:Not very far, probably eight miles. All right, well, why don't we get started? We are going to be looking at Ruth, so one thing about Ruth or one thing about reading the Old Testament. So one thing about Ruth or one thing about reading the Old Testament. When you read both the Old and the New Testament are historical documents, right, but the Old Testament are, like, primarily just stories of stuff that happened to the Jews, people, people, stories about people. I guess in a way, the Old Testament and the New Testament are exactly the same.
Speaker 2:I don't know. The New Testament is a lot of letters.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of letters in the New Testament that tell people how to live a life.
Speaker 2:And there's a lot of rules in the Old Testament telling people how to not live life.
Speaker 1:Right. So a lot of the Old Testament, though, are stories like Ruth, which talk about God's faithfulness, and that's really what this story is about, and I mean, that's how I summarize it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:God is faithful um and um. Let's see my. My little thing has an introduction here. Should I read that? Sure, all right, this is uh, the niv, not the this the esv.
Speaker 1:Introduction to ruth. It says the book of ruth tells of a young moabite widow who, out of love for her widowed israelite mother-in-law, abandoned her own culture, declaring your people shall be my people and your God my God. Though she was destitute and needing to rely on the kindness of others, ruth's disposition and character captured the attention of Boaz, a close relative of her deceased husband. Boaz, a close relative of her deceased husband. Boaz fulfilled the role of kinsman redeemer and took Ruth as his wife. Ruth serves as a wonderful example of God's providential care of his people and of his willingness to accept Gentiles who seek him. Ruth was an ancestor of Christ. I did not even realize that, by the way, until I read this.
Speaker 2:Really, yeah, oh, I've heard that by the way until I read this Really yeah, oh, I've heard that for years. Well, sure.
Speaker 1:It's nice to hear Ruth was an ancestor of Christ. The author is unknown, but the genealogy at the end suggests that it was written during or after the time of David.
Speaker 2:Well, thanks, Ken. Now we don't even have to read the book of Ruth.
Speaker 1:Because it just told us everything.
Speaker 2:Pretty much.
Speaker 1:Well, it did a little bit, but the cool thing is it talks about faithfulness, and I was going to mention this later but I forgot that it mentioned this. But Ruth is a Gentile, but this story is about her.
Speaker 2:It's about her and Naomi Sure.
Speaker 1:All right. Anyway, I do want to point out. There is Boaz. It says fulfilled the role of kinsman redeemer. And what is a kinsman redeemer? Steve?
Speaker 2:We're going into that now. It's not even in chapter one. All right, we'll wait, we'll talk about it later, because that's probably all we'll talk about in the chapter where that is, that's true, that is true, all right.
Speaker 1:Well, steve, do you want to read the chapter?
Speaker 2:I'll read the first section, all right, and you can read the second section, all right. And I'll read the third section.
Speaker 1:Got it.
Speaker 2:And then we'll be done All right.
Speaker 1:We're reading Ruth, chapter one.
Speaker 2:In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land and a man of Bethlehem and Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab he and his wife and his two sons. The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife, naomi, and the names of his two sons were Malon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem and Judah. They went into the country of Moab and remained there, but Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, died and she was left with her two sons. These took Moabite wives, gentile. The name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other, ruth. They lived there about ten years and both Malon and Chilion died.
Speaker 1:So the most amazing thing about this to me, is that there was a Native American woman in this area, Naomi. Isn't that a common Native American female name?
Speaker 2:I have no idea, really no.
Speaker 1:Do you know why I think that? I think because on Seinfeld there's a Native. The story, all your facts of life come from Seinfeld? Yes, apparently. Facts of life come from Seinfeld yes, apparently. But there's a girl that he offends because she's a Native American and her name's Naomi. Okay, I'm going to have to look this up now. Is that a common Native American female name? I want to know.
Speaker 2:All right, you can look to know. All right, you can look that up. So in the very first verse it says when the judges ruled.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:So what does that mean to you, Ken?
Speaker 1:Well, it means that this was before King Saul. So if you know some history, which, if you read your Bible enough, you will find that King Saul was the very first king. Before that, they just had judges.
Speaker 2:And there's a whole book called Judges.
Speaker 1:And there is a whole book called Judges.
Speaker 2:And, according to the book of Matthew, ruth was King David's great-great-grandmother, and that was already covered in the intro.
Speaker 1:But since you kind of ruined my notes by reading it.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm sorry about that. Yeah, thanks. So why did they leave Bethlehem and go to Moab?
Speaker 1:Because there was a family You're looking up.
Speaker 2:Indian names.
Speaker 1:Do you know what's amazing? It's not a Native American name. I'm not shocked at all. But do you know what's amazing? It's not a Native American name. I'm not shocked at all, but do you know what it is? It is an Indian name, which maybe it's a Hindu name, which means above all or beautiful. That's weird.
Speaker 2:I wonder if it's um I wonder if seinfeld was trying to be racially funny and you missed the whole joke I don't know.
Speaker 1:Okay, I apologize to anybody I have offended through my ignorance.
Speaker 2:I don't know apology accepted to anybody I have offended through my ignorance.
Speaker 1:I don't know anything. Apology accepted. Okay, thank you, steve. All right, what was your?
Speaker 2:question. So Naomi and Elimelech.
Speaker 1:Elimelech.
Speaker 2:Elimelech.
Speaker 1:Elimelech, they left their Jewish lands, yes, in search of food. Right-do-do-do Balaamalek they left their Jewish lands, yes, in search of food. Right, because there was a famine.
Speaker 2:So do you know who the Moabites were?
Speaker 1:Why don't you tell me you don't? Know, do you? They were Gentiles, I know that.
Speaker 2:So this is interesting.
Speaker 1:Is it?
Speaker 2:So for some reason, the Jewish people were, you know sort of enemies with them, even though they're the ancestors of Lot. They both come from this same line as Abraham.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but okay, then that means, isn't that the line of Islam?
Speaker 2:No, that's his firstborn to the slave. Oh, lot's firstborn. No, abraham's firstborn, abraham's firstborn, okay yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh, you're right, Lot's his nephew, it's um, it's um Jacob.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:I can't believe this.
Speaker 2:Isaac.
Speaker 1:Your son's name, isaac, is the Jewish line.
Speaker 2:And Ishmael you should have had another son.
Speaker 1:You could have named him Ishmael oh gosh, that would have been great.
Speaker 2:It's going to be a good idea, you could have named him Ishmael.
Speaker 1:Oh gosh, that would have been great. It would have been a good idea.
Speaker 2:You needed a housekeeper. What?
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, let's go on. All right, so all right. So they didn't like each other, the Jews, and yeah, so it's a little.
Speaker 2:First of all, it's weird that I mean that's a long time I can see where they wouldn't remember that they're related anymore, but secondly, that they would run from their own nation to one that they're enemies with.
Speaker 1:But I can tell you, the Jews always remembered, I mean, that's why they wrote down these histories. True, they knew who the Moabites were.
Speaker 2:They're probably not that far away either, Because if you remember, you know Abraham and Lot.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:He said I'll go this way, you go that way.
Speaker 1:Yes, All right so.
Speaker 2:All the men died? Yeah, all the men died. Do you think they had bad genes, like?
Speaker 1:no, I, this is what I think. I think that there was a horrible famine and, um, you know if, if you let's say where we live right now, um, all of a sudden, you know, we're engineers, all the engineering jobs dried up and we heard that, okay, and so we don't have jobs anymore and we can't get a job here. But we heard that you can get a job, that there are some engineering jobs in Dallas. It's a horrible place, right, but we go and all right, so I get some internship job and you get some VP of engineering job, and so you're doing fine, but I'm still struggling, and so you're doing fine, but I'm still struggling. And so you know, my guess is that the famine while there was no food where they came from.
Speaker 1:I think it's not like there were bounties of food where they went to, but probably better, I don't know I there was also a.
Speaker 2:there's a much lower, higher mortality rate and there's a pretty good chance that they got enlisted into high risk jobs or even could be war.
Speaker 1:yeah, fighting type of roles's true, or maybe they just had bad hearts, or maybe, yeah, maybe they were shepherds or something also, and a lion or bear killed them. Hmm, that seems unlikely. Whatever, what. Okay, so anyway. Yeah, they died. Um, which kind of sucks. They took gentile wives. And, by the way, did you get the name orpah? You know, oprah winfrey, that was supposed to be her name, but they misspelled it on the birth certificate yeah so her name became op.
Speaker 2:And she has her own channel.
Speaker 1:Yep, who knows what Orpah Winfrey would have done? Hmm, no, that's a question.
Speaker 2:Who knows, she probably would have gone to the Jewish side. Oh no, she would have gone to the— Well, we haven't gotten to that part of the story we haven't gotten there yet, steve All right would have gone to the.
Speaker 1:Well, we haven't got to that. We haven't gotten there yet, steve all right. So anyway, they marry her sons, marry these, um, gentile wives, um, and then all the men die, and so let's go on. Or do you have more? You want to say no, that's all I had in that first section, it's all you.
Speaker 2:Then she arose that that's ruth.
Speaker 1:Then she arose with first section it's all you. Then she arose that's Ruth. Then she arose with her daughters-in-law to return from the country of Moab, for she had heard in the fields of Moab that the Lord had visited his people and given them food. So she set out for the place where she was with her two daughters-in-law and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah. But Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law Go, return each of you to her mother's house. May the Lord deal kindly with you as you have dealt with the dead and with me. The Lord grant that you may find. Rest each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them and they lifted up their voices and wept and they said to her no, we will not return with you. No, no, we will return with you to your people. But Naomi said Turn back my daughters. We will. Oh man, I'm worse than you.
Speaker 2:You're doing great. Turn back my daughters, we will. Why, oh man, you're worse than you.
Speaker 1:You're doing great. Turn back my daughters. Why will you go with me? Have I yet sons in my womb that they may become your husbands? Turn back my daughters, Go your way, for I am too old to have a husband, if I should say I have hope, even if I should have a husband this night and should bear sons. Would you therefore wait till they were grown? Would you therefore refrain from marrying? No, my daughters, for it is exceedingly bitter to me, for your sake, that the hand of the Lord has gone against me.
Speaker 1:Then they lifted up their voices and wept again, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her and she said see, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods. Return after your sister-in-law. But Ruth said do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you, for where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people and your God my God. Where you die, I will die and there I will. Will I be buried? May the Lord do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts me from you. And when Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more. Well done, ken. Thank you, gosh. Okay, to be fair, there's a lot of like odd wording.
Speaker 2:It's almost like Yoda is talking there Weird words like and, and they Exactly.
Speaker 1:But no, things are in a weird order. So, like it says where you die, I will die. People don't talk like that. No, die not Do or do not there is no die All right.
Speaker 2:So something I never noticed before. Okay, and it will become more significant later.
Speaker 1:Great, now you're giving them hints.
Speaker 2:But apparently Naomi worked in the fields.
Speaker 1:Huh, I didn't even notice that. Where is it so?
Speaker 2:in verse six, for she had heard in the fields of Moab.
Speaker 1:Boom, you're right. Naomi was working in the fields.
Speaker 2:Now, maybe she was doing that whole gleaning thing.
Speaker 1:I think that's probably what she's doing, or, you know, walking behind the other ladies, or she actually might have a job.
Speaker 2:I bet she was gleaning because otherwise I think she's going back to Bethlehem because she has relatives there. She got a better chance of being able to survive.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And so, yeah, I think I think you're right.
Speaker 1:She's probably like going behind the harvesters and getting the leftovers and maybe they talked to her and were kind to her there, or maybe they just said hey, please go away. I heard there's food in Bethlehem. We don't want your kind here, you do.
Speaker 2:Okay, all right.
Speaker 1:Anything else from that section?
Speaker 2:So in verse 9, she wanted her daughter's-in-law to go find new husbands. Yeah, which makes sense. They're probably only in like their 20s-ish.
Speaker 1:Maybe, maybe not even Well, they were married 10 years?
Speaker 2:Oh, did it say that? Yeah, so they were. Where is that? It was in my section.
Speaker 1:Oh, they lived there about 10 years. Okay, and then they died Well they lived there about 10 years oh, that's implying with their wives, okay. And then they died. Well, they lived there about ten years oh, that's implying with their wives, okay.
Speaker 2:So they were probably mid-20s upper 20s, so I guess in that day it may have been a bit old, but nowadays that's like prime.
Speaker 1:Yeah, true, true, dat.
Speaker 2:Yeah, true, true, dat, yep, Okay, and then.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a good catch.
Speaker 2:And verse 11, she talks about Jewish tradition here, or maybe it's even law, that had she had a third son, it would have been his duty to marry the wives of his dead brothers, both of them. I think, so I think so yeah, and she certainly wasn't going to have another kid.
Speaker 1:And she acts like she's very old.
Speaker 2:She's probably only late 40s or 50s.
Speaker 1:But that's old for having a kid. Oh yeah, it's's old for having a kid. Oh yeah, it's really old for having a kid. Um, and she's not. She has no prospects, um and then they and then they would have to wait and they'd be like what?
Speaker 2:14 years at least so they'd be in their 40s.
Speaker 1:They'd be 40, it's like, and then creepy um, that's not creepy. Steve that back. It is today. Back then it would not be creepy at all I thought I was creepy steve you are creepy steve, but apparently that was a very common thing and it wasn't. It was more of a tradition than it was. Not like I don't want to get in.
Speaker 1:It wasn't a sexual thing, even though that was part of the duties of the husband but I'm saying but it wasn't like you know, because it sounds sort of like a pedophile because they're like 40 years old and he's 14. But that's the culture of how things were supposed to be done in that case. So I don't want to act like it's right or wrong, it's just the way things were.
Speaker 2:I'm thinking when I was 14.
Speaker 1:I don't even want to hear this, steve. I don't want to hear what you're. I don't know what you're going to say, but I don't want to hear it. Oh my gosh. Um, all right. So naomi begged the daughters to go back and find husbands. Orpa left, um, but or, sad too, she didn't want to leave either. But she listened to Naomi's wisdom, because there is some wisdom in that right.
Speaker 2:She was probably on the fence to begin with.
Speaker 1:Maybe she had a TV deal working up going soon in the Moabite Orpah.
Speaker 2:Oh gosh Sorry, Gosh man, all right, going soon in the moabite orpa. Oh gosh sorry, gosh man, all right.
Speaker 1:Anyway, if you said talk show, I would have caught on fast, okay, yeah, well, you know, sometimes I rely. I just assume that you're not stupid and that's that's and that's my fault, all right, but anyway. But Ruth is determined, right she?
Speaker 2:is not going to leave her, which makes you wonder did Ruth have a bad relationship with her parents? Or maybe they were dead, who knows? Although, why would she say, go back to the house of your mothers.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they could be, but I yawned. I think more than anything, she really loved her mother-in-law. It could also be I've never thought about this before, but it could also be Orpah said I'm leaving, and then she realized that Naomi would be alone.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and was worried before.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I think both of them loved Naomi. But if one leaves it's like the other one is going. I cannot let her go by herself. But I do think that maybe Naomi there's something about Naomi that Ruth really enjoyed Not everybody also not everybody has great parental systems at home.
Speaker 2:No, but I think your explanation's better. She A1.
Speaker 1:A1 sauce A Heinz 57.
Speaker 2:Loved Naomi and two B Was worried about her being on her own.
Speaker 1:Yeah. But you know she did more than just say I'll go with you to protect you, right? She said your people will be my people and your God my God. So you know, I'm going to throw all those idols and whatever the Moabites worshipped. I'm going to worship your God.
Speaker 2:Now it's interesting that she said I'm going to worship your God when just above that, in 13, naomi says it is exceedingly bitter to me for your sake that the hand of the Lord has gone out against me she's blaming God for all of this. Yeah, she's a bitter old woman well, is it God's fault?
Speaker 1:fault well, is it God that gave her, put her in the situation?
Speaker 2:the answer is yes, pretty much, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:So she is right in that God has put her in this situation Now. Paul would say rejoice always, rejoice in your suffering, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:But she hasn't heard from Paul.
Speaker 1:No, she hasn't All right. So they head out together, all right. So why don't you finish this up, steve, with the last section?
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I don't really have much for this section. So the two of them went on until they came to Bethlehem. And when they came to Bethlehem the whole town was stirred because of them and the women said is this Naomi? She said to them do not call me Naomi, call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. I went away full and the Lord has brought me back empty.
Speaker 1:All right. So a couple of things here. First of all, she says don't call me Naomi, which means pleasant Yep, call me Mara which means bitter which you know, I I have known people named Mara, or I have known a person at least one person named Mara.
Speaker 2:Was she bitter?
Speaker 1:Well, I just wonder what were the parents thinking?
Speaker 2:They probably had no idea. That's what it means Really.
Speaker 1:You know, we looked up every single name that we named our children to know what it meant.
Speaker 2:Nowadays, people just make up a name. That's true.
Speaker 1:That's true, but the people that use the name Mara. It's a biblical name and it's not real common.
Speaker 2:Maybe they said to the nurse oh, we'll name her Tamara. And the nurse said okay, Mara, it is, that's my wife's actual first name, tamara Tamara.
Speaker 1:But a lot of you can tell when somebody doesn't and calls or leaves a message and doesn't really know her Looking for Tamara, she doesn't even go by her first name and that's not how she pronounces it. Um, anyway, uh, that's funny. Yes, thank you, steve. Um, uh, what, what? Oh, another thing I noticed here. I think it's really cool that bethlehem is in here, because that's where somebody comes, is it?
Speaker 2:Jesus.
Speaker 1:I'm not sure that's the right answer. Oh yeah, it is the right answer. It's always the right answer. That's where Jesus comes from, that's where he was born. Yep, so all right, so they get there right at the harvest season for barley. When is that, steve, do you know?
Speaker 2:You grew up in Ohio.
Speaker 1:You have to know.
Speaker 2:Barley seems similar to wheat to me which I grew up around wheat, and wheat would be early summer. Okay, so I'm guessing about the same.
Speaker 1:That's probably right. I think it's a little later. It's a little heftier of a of a grain, right, isn't it? Yeah, you know more. I'm just an idiot, but you're just an. You're an idiot who grew up in on a farm that should know better that doesn't um, anyway.
Speaker 1:So, um, all right, so they, um, oh, also another reason why I think, um, it's a little later. Is she heard the information about grain, about food being in bethlehem while she was probably gleaning? Yeah, and where were they? Moab, moab, is that the city or is it? No, it's.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, the country of Moab.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all right so. But the of Moab? Yeah, all right so.
Speaker 2:But the whole town still recognized her. That was promising.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was pretty good. So she's been gone 10 years.
Speaker 2:More than 10.
Speaker 1:Probably a little more than 10, maybe 12, who knows, could be 20. Could be, but they recognize her and they're happy. The whole town is astir. Bethlehem was pretty small but the whole town was astir. Said ah, naomi, and she says God has, let's see when the Lord has testified against me and the Almighty has brought calamity or how did you pronounce that again, Steve? Calamity upon.
Speaker 2:Calamity upon me. Calamity upon me.
Speaker 1:All right, so anyway, that's the end of chapter one for Ruth.
Speaker 2:So they're there, they're, there, they're, there, they're there and people know they're there.
Speaker 1:They're there, all right, anything else, steve.
Speaker 2:Nope, all right. Read chapter two, steve.
Speaker 1:Nope, all right. Read chapter two.
Speaker 2:I'm sure you can read it better than we do. Yeah, next thing, read chapter two and be ready to talk about it or hear about it. I don't think your exit's too long.
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