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 2
Ever tried extinguishing a kitchen fire with a blanket? Ken and Steve kick off their Bible study with hilarious tales of birthday mishaps and kitchen safety lessons that lead to a spirited debate about the best way to read Bible verses. Their camaraderie shines through even as they explore different approaches, setting the stage for a relaxed and insightful exploration of the Book of Ruth. As they dive into Ruth's journey, they highlight her unyielding determination and the guiding providence that leads her to Boaz.
Get ready to be transported to Bethlehem, where Ruth and Boaz's story unfolds with a blend of cultural insights and lighthearted laughs about farming terminology—did you know wheat has "ears"? Ken and Steve discuss the practice of gleaning and marvel at Ruth's honorable actions that capture Boaz's attention. Their musings on ancient greetings spark thoughts on how such practices might play out in today's workplaces, painting a vivid picture of Ruth's chance encounter with Boaz, who recognizes and blesses her.
The conversation deepens as they delve into Boaz's acts of kindness, symbolized by his invitation for Ruth to join him for a meal. They unpack the cultural significance of being a "redeemer" and how it reflects on land and family ties, while also shedding light on the societal obstacles faced by women in Ruth's time. With plans to tackle Ruth, chapter 3, in their next session, Ken and Steve wrap up this episode with Thanksgiving wishes, inviting listeners to join them in the ongoing journey through Ruth's remarkable story.
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Speaker 2:Not, we're regular right after Ken and Steve, and we are just regular guys studying the Bible together, not theologians, right after coffee.
Speaker 1:Yep, I have coffee in the morning, all right, steve. Well, we've missed another couple of weeks.
Speaker 2:We have. We had to go places and I had to have a birthday.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you had to have a birthday. Yeah, you had to have a birthday. I had to be gone. Things happen, so do you have?
Speaker 2:like a fire extinguisher in your kitchen. That's a great question, I'm looking at a fire extinguisher right now, which I have at least two in my shop, but in the kitchen I can't think of one. It's probably under the sink, though, okay wow, that's scary that you don't know yeah, it is.
Speaker 1:I need to check so, you know, I decided I've seen some uh videos on the fire blanket thing and so, um, I decided to order one because page is always.
Speaker 2:Is this a paid sponsorship?
Speaker 1:It's not a paid sponsorship, but, um, my wife always complains cause it's ugly. So she like puts it under the counter and like hides it behind everything Just in case someone looks under there. They won't see it because it's ugly. So if we had a fire we could never find that thing. So I got this fire blanket and it goes on a wall on the backside where no one can see, except for for us backside of what wall well, it's, it's.
Speaker 1:I don't where the ovens are. There's a wall on the other side that that's kind of in the breakfast area. You can see it from the breakfast area, but not from the main room or the kitchen wait, is it the blanket that's ugly, or the fire? No, the fire extinguisher, and this would be ugly too, but I can hide it. I see um and they're easier to use um have you tested it?
Speaker 1:no, I haven't, but it was. The whole point of my story is. It was showing up today and it was 10 stops away and isaac, uh, my son, shot a deer a couple weeks ago and he decided to do backstrap and and loin from the deer and he was searing this thing and he was cooking two other things and, oh man, it was about to go up in flames and our and our fire blanket was, uh, 10 stops away in flames and our and our fire blanket was, uh, 10 stops away, um, so it wasn't there yet, you didn't get to try.
Speaker 1:It wasn't there yet. But I was really worried. I was thinking, man, it's gonna show up and I'm gonna run to the door, pull it out of his hands and throw it on our, on our kitchen, uh, on our stove. But no, it actually. It actually did not burn the house down and it was actually really good.
Speaker 2:I got a compliment him on that, so all right, you know I failed to get the invite for dinner. I wonder how that happened.
Speaker 1:I know we sent it. I really I know we sent it.
Speaker 2:I'll go look through the mail we threw away, because usually, you know, we just throw stuff away.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I think we texted it to you from an unknown number, or no?
Speaker 2:Did it say a long time. No see, how are you?
Speaker 1:Yeah, something like that, and then I tried to call you from my spam phone.
Speaker 2:Your burner phone.
Speaker 1:And it probably said spam. What does it say? It says something.
Speaker 2:None of those ring through for me. Yeah, I have them all blocked.
Speaker 1:That's why. Okay, I'm sorry. Yeah, that's why.
Speaker 2:All right, well, I have a sorry. Yeah, that's why. All right, well, I have a suggestion. Yeah, let's not read verse one right away, because to me it's a spoiler.
Speaker 1:No, that's the Bible. It is the Bible. We'll come back and we'll read it. No, no, no, no, no. You got to read straight through, you can't? It ruins the story. Oh, so you think you're better than God, is that?
Speaker 2:what you're saying. I just don't like how you told the story.
Speaker 1:Okay. Well, this is how God wanted it in our Bible, and so if you're better than God, then let's do't do that. That's a tough one. No, it's not All right, guys. Well, we are on Ruth, chapter two. There's only four chapters in Ruth. This is our first Old Testament study, so why don't we get started? You know? There's no easy break here I think we should do like two paragraphs and two paragraphs. Just okay, that's fine. You want to start? Sure, all right, I'll start at 2-2. No, you're not. Start at 2-1.
Speaker 2:Gosh. Ruth meets Boaz. What that's not. That is not no, that isn't no no, no, no, 2-1.
Speaker 1:You just added stuff that's not in the Bible. You added that it's in my Bible. It's not, not in the Bible.
Speaker 2:You added that it's in my Bible? It's not.
Speaker 1:It's the heading, it is not part of the word of God. I wish I would not do that.
Speaker 2:All right, let's get going. Quit your whining. Now. Naomi had a relative of her husband, a worthy man of clan of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz and Ruth. The Moabite said to Naomi, let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after him, in whose sight I shall find favor. And she said to her Go, my daughter. So she set out and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers. And she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the clan Elimelech. And behold, boaz came from Bethlehem. And he said to the reapers the Lord be with you. And they answered the Lord bless you. And Boaz said to his young man who was in charge of the reapers Whose young woman is this? And the servant who was in charge of the reapers answered she is the young Moabite woman who came back with Naomi from the country of Moab. She said please, let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the reapers.
Speaker 1:Hold it, naomi, her voice just changed.
Speaker 2:That was the guy quoting her. That wasn't her.
Speaker 1:Oh, you're right. Okay, I'm sorry. Continue.
Speaker 2:So she came and she has continued from early morning until now, except for a short rest. You just ruined all my voices. Then Boaz said to Ruth Now listen, my daughter, do not go to glean in another field or leave this one, but keep close to my young women, Let your eyes be on the field that they are reaping and go after them. Have I not charged the young men not to touch you? And when you are thirsty, go to the vessels and drink what the young men have drawn?
Speaker 2:Then she fell on her face, bowing to the ground and said to him why have you found favor in your, why have I found favor in your eyes that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner? But Boaz answered her All that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband has been fully told to me, and how you left your father and mother and your native land and came to a people that you did not know before. All right, Thank you, Steve, For you have comforted me and spoken kindly to your servant though I am not one of your servants.
Speaker 1:All right, thank you, steve. You have to top that, ken. Yeah, I'm concerned about that. As you can tell, steve listens to audiobooks, so he I do. You know, the best audiobook readers are really good at voices and changing.
Speaker 2:How do they change so quickly? I don't know.
Speaker 1:I think they do a lot of editing honestly. Yeah, I guess. So All right.
Speaker 2:What do you find here interesting?
Speaker 1:Well, as you said before, that first verse really is annoying to me it's very annoying because it makes it sound like at first that ruth is sending I mean naomi is sending ruth to um a limb, uh, to boaz's field to glean. But that's, that's not what's happening at all. That's just like a side note, it's like by the way, just so you know, there's this guy. There's this guy named boaz there who's actually related to naomi from the clan of elimelech. Just thought you might want to know.
Speaker 2:Hint, hint. That foreshadowing isn't nearly subtle enough.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I think it's unnecessary in the story, but I mean because we find out later that this is true, so it's not needed there. But that's all right, it is what it is. Um, so what is gleaning? Steve? Do you know what gleaning is? Gleaning, gleaning no, that's, that's leaning. That's leaning, this is gleaning.
Speaker 2:Gleaning is going through the field after it's been harvested and finding the stuff they missed.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:In fact there's an Old Testament law that says they're supposed to leave some stuff for the poor. That's right when they're harvesting.
Speaker 1:That's right, and Naomi and Ruth don't have anything right. They are poor.
Speaker 2:They've got diddly. They've got did diddly. Not even that much of diddly.
Speaker 1:They got diddly squat, maybe a little squat, anyway. So what she is doing is trying to go behind the harvesters, but you know, it sounds weird to me because it sounds like they, the young men, are harvesting and then there's women he has young women following them, it does sound that way who are also gleaning and she is going to glean after them, to glean after them.
Speaker 2:But I'm not positive. Are we sure that they're gleaning?
Speaker 1:Well, I don't know what they're doing then, if they're not gleaning right, let's see. Oh, what did she do? She went out and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers.
Speaker 2:no, it's just after the reapers yeah and she just maybe the young women are out there watching the young men oh no, they're, they're doing, they're doing other things, I think Probably.
Speaker 1:Maybe they're picking up the baskets that the harvesters have gathered, and that's why she's going after them. So you don't want to look like you're stealing out of the. Oh, that would make sense.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I like that answer yeah, I like that answer. Yeah, but isn't it interesting that it says the ears of grain. I've only thought of corn as having ears.
Speaker 1:Well, they have little yeah they have little ears, but we don't call them ears.
Speaker 2:Right, I actually looked it up and apparently wheat is also called an ear, and wheat and barley are extremely similar in terms of how they look.
Speaker 1:Okay, You're a farmer, you should know this.
Speaker 2:You would think, but my dad kept me out of the farming. He did not want me to be a farmer.
Speaker 1:Huh, and did y'all have wheat?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, Tons of wheat.
Speaker 1:You had wheat and you didn't even know.
Speaker 2:That it was called ears.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:We had wheat, soybeans and corn.
Speaker 1:That is so weird. Okay, yeah, you're uh that that that's surprising that you wouldn't have more knowledge on that. All right, so um, I just think it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's surprising that you wouldn't have more knowledge on that.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm, all right, so I just think it's really cool out of you know, all the people she could have stepped into the life of. She stepped into Boaz's life, who happens to be a relative and is obviously a good man, and that we'll find out in a minute.
Speaker 2:Well, we've already found out somewhat of how good of an honor and honorable man he is. I mean, he's rewarding her for being an honorable woman to his relative.
Speaker 1:Rewarding her for being an honorable woman to his relative. That's true and you know it might. I don't know if this was, if this is normal, but you know he yells to the workers the Lord be with you. And they respond the Lord bless you. I don't know, maybe that's just a standard greeting.
Speaker 2:You know, I think I might try that at work tomorrow, see how it goes.
Speaker 1:I took the week off, so you do that I want to hear about it, though let's see. Another thing I noticed is so a couple of things. First of all, boaz has heard about her, and Bethlehem is not a huge town. Right, it's not a tiny little town, but it's not huge by any stretch.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and but it is significant, or Naomi's return was significant, significant enough to be a reference point. That's true in this story.
Speaker 1:That's true. So anyway, first of all, boaz is heard about. In fact, it sounds like a lot of people know about Naomi's return Right Because they're talking about her return. But one of the things I noticed is that it says that the worker tells Boaz that she has continued from early morning until now, except for a short rest she's a hard worker.
Speaker 1:She's a hard worker, yeah, so obviously the guy recognizes that she's worked hard. And I put a little note about this for my and this is when I put notes mostly it's for myself and I noted that God puts us in places first of all, but it is our job, us work hard, and I think it is important, that thing that she's working hard, I think, meant a lot to her future.
Speaker 2:I think there's a verse somewhere that says work as though working for the Lord.
Speaker 1:Yes, there is a verse that says that.
Speaker 2:I don't know where that is.
Speaker 1:I know people that would be able to quote it, the whole verse, and say where it is. I'm not one of those people, steve, you know me and apparently I'm not one of those people. I know you're not one of those people. All right, let's see. By the way, how's your shoulder doing, Steve?
Speaker 2:It's hurting. I cannot lean on my elbows or it hurts really bad.
Speaker 1:I thought I just saw a grimace on your face.
Speaker 2:That's what it was. Okay, and I have to kind of lean over to get to the mic, yeah.
Speaker 1:So I'm just going to lean on one arm. Arm, I think you should go to the doctor for that.
Speaker 2:Sorry, everyone, I it's you know, sometimes we hurt you know, next monday I have a physical, so I will ask all right, is it tuesday? It might be tuesday all right.
Speaker 1:Well, let's continue. All right, um so, um. What about the second paragraph? We talked about the first paragraph.
Speaker 2:So I wonder how old he is to talk to her as my daughter.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think he's pretty old.
Speaker 2:Do you talk to your daughter's friends?
Speaker 1:as my daughter, old, but you talk to your daughter's friends as my daughter. No, but that's, that's a cultural thing. I wouldn't do that, no matter how old I am, and I wouldn't say child either. I wouldn't say that. So yeah, I don't know, but I think he is pretty old and we'll, I think, and we well, we'll hear things later. Maybe, I think, maybe Nick in chapter three will have indications that he's pretty old.
Speaker 2:Oh, did you read ahead?
Speaker 1:Yeah, we've skipped for so long. I've just started reading two three and four, two, 3, and 4, 2, 3, and 4.
Speaker 2:I should have done that.
Speaker 1:All right, so then what happens?
Speaker 2:Well, Boaz shows up and he learns about her and tells her hey, stick around, I'll have my guys watch over you. You can glean all you want and hang out with the people. See here where it says keep close to my young women, Let your eyes be on the field, that they are reaping and go after them. I think the women are the ones reaping and the men are carrying the baskets.
Speaker 1:Oh, that could be. Maybe that's true. Yeah, that could be so. And the men could also be making sure no one harasses the women, because you know, women were really at a disadvantage back then. I mean, people say there's a disadvantage today and you know there's some inequalities between men and women today, but I can tell you it's much better today than it was back then. And you know that was one of the fears, right, that for her, if she was going to go work in another field she might get abused in some way. It doesn't say what kind of harassment she might take makes you wonder um, I think it could be anything.
Speaker 1:I think it could be like beat up. I think it could be worse yeah, sexual Sexual harassment or abuse.
Speaker 2:I think it could have been anything. It is in the time of judges.
Speaker 1:And she was. She's not very old. She hasn't had kids yet either.
Speaker 2:Well, I think we've figured she was probably in her early 20s.
Speaker 1:I think, yeah, that's what we're guessing. 20s, I think. Late 20s, though, or mid to early 20s, I think, yeah, that's what we're guessing.
Speaker 2:20s, I think late 20s, though, or mid to late 20s right.
Speaker 1:Mid to late, probably, anyway. So she is. So Boaz, you know, shows her favor and you know he compliments her. On what?
Speaker 2:she's done for her mother.
Speaker 1:And as a foreigner, she has accepted God as her God and, yeah, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.
Speaker 2:Yes, All right, which that to me seems like a pretty big deal, because she is a Gentile and outside of their religion and they're supposed to.
Speaker 1:You know, keep separate. Yeah, I don't know the rules, all the rules. I know it's well. I believe it's more difficult for a man to become Well we know that's the case, Well.
Speaker 1:I know he would have to be circumcised, and there might be some bigger formalities for him to become Jew than for a woman. I think for the woman, she really just needs to hold to the law and marry a Jewish man. I think you're right, but I don't know. I know there's people who know the answer, but I don't know for sure. All right, well, should we go on to the next section? I think we should, all right, and so I will continue or do? Would you like to read again, steve?
Speaker 1:no I'm good, all right. And at mealtime boaz said to her come here and sit and eat some bread and dip your morsel in the wine. So she sat beside the reapers and he passed her roasted grain as she ate until she was satisfied. And she ate until she was satisfied and she had some leftover. When she rose to glean, boaz instructed his young men saying let her glean, even among the sheaves and do not reproach her, and also pull out some of the bundles for her to leave it for her to glean and do not rebuke her. He was obviously a really big, boisterous kind of guy. Um, so he gleaned. So she gleaned in the field until evening. Then she beat out what she had gleaned and it was about an effa of barley and she took it up and went into the city. Her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. She also brought out and gave her what food she had left over after being satisfied.
Speaker 3:And her mother-in-law said to her when did you glean today and where have you worked? Blessed be the man who took notice of you.
Speaker 2:So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked and said Naomi just doubled in age since the first two parents.
Speaker 1:Naomi's old Whom she had worked and said the man's name with whom I work today is Boaz.
Speaker 3:And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law May he be blessed by the Lord, whose kindness has not forsaken the living or the dead.
Speaker 1:Naomi also said to her.
Speaker 3:The man is a close relative of ours, one of our redeemers.
Speaker 1:And Ruth the Moabite said. And Ruth the Moabite said, besides, he said to me you shall keep close to my young men until they have finished all my harvest.
Speaker 3:And Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law it is good, my daughter, that you go out with his young women, lest another field, lest in another field you be assaulted so she kept close to the young women of Boaz gleaning until the end of the barley and wheat harvest and she lived with her mother-in-law.
Speaker 2:Very good, ken. You should like read books for Audible or something. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I felt like I was really in a zone. I mean, I was tracking with Twilight zone.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh.
Speaker 1:Okay, I hope that was not so distracting that no one could follow it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so in 14, doesn't it sound like a date? Because at mealtime Boaz said to her come here and eat some bread and dip your morsel in the wine.
Speaker 1:Well, she doesn't have any food, steve, this is true. I think he's just being nice because he knows that she has no food and the wheat that she has is not ready to be consumed. So he has cooked some food. I think he's just being nice. You know what I do think Ruth is attractive.
Speaker 2:Well, she's also apparently quite strong, because an eepah of barley is 22 liters 22 liters.
Speaker 1:Oh, this is barley, not wheat. Okay, barley. 22 liters.
Speaker 2:Now, granted, a liter of barley probably doesn't weigh as much as a liter of Coke.
Speaker 1:We're talking about cocaine, right. No the drink, oh, okay.
Speaker 2:But can you imagine carrying 11 two-liter bottles full of grain?
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's pretty heavy. I mean it's that's heavy. Yeah, hey Siri how much? Does a liter of barley weigh?
Speaker 2:She might have had one of those sticks with the baskets on her shoulders.
Speaker 1:All right, let's see it would weigh 463. 643, I mean grams. I don't know what that is. Ask Siri. 643, I mean grams. I don't know what that is. Ask siri, siri. How many pounds is 643 grams? 1.42 pounds, that's for oh, maybe that's one. Oh, that's one liter yeah, so it would be.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's not too bad. It's only like 30 pounds 30 pounds.
Speaker 1:She probably carried it on her head. I mean it's a lot. Though it is a lot, I assume that's not normal for gleaning.
Speaker 2:No, I'm sure it's not. I mean, even Naomi was shocked when she got back right, she was obviously shocked.
Speaker 1:It's like, wow, somebody took notice of you and was was kind to you. Um, all right, so, um, let's see.
Speaker 2:So boaz instructors, um and clean throughout the harvest, right, um, and uh, uh uh, it's interesting, though, that Naomi brings up also the whole threat of being assaulted.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true. I think it's just well known that you gotta be careful. That, yeah, it's true. I think it's just well known that you got to be careful. Yeah, it's sad. So I did look this up. How long did the barley and wheat harvest last? It's about two months.
Speaker 2:Really that's a long time. Yeah, really, that's a long time yeah, but think about that. Two months has to last them the whole year, yeah I know, yep we're in a very uh, privileged age where food just shows up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Year round. And if we ever have an apocalyptic event which the world will have we will have an apocalyptic event at some point. I think there's a lot of us who will not know at all how to survive.
Speaker 2:Why are you looking at me when you say that?
Speaker 1:Because you're in front of me, steve, oh I should you looking at me when you say that? Because you're in front of me, steve, oh I, I should be looking at my, and actually I'm looking at myself too. So, um, all right, so let's see. Um. So you know, boaz gave her some roasted grain and she ate and had some leftovers. She took it to Naomi along with all the barley she had gleaned, and you know she's really excited saying, wow, you did this is awesome. Who did you run into? She tells him it was Boaz and then she declares the man is a close relative of ours, one of our redeemers.
Speaker 2:Which we already learned in verse one, because they wanted to ruin the story for everyone.
Speaker 1:But well, except this is the first time we hear the word redeemers. So what is a redeemer?
Speaker 2:There is a I guess it's a law.
Speaker 1:Part of the Jewish law.
Speaker 2:That, if the.
Speaker 1:Actually I'm not sure it's law. It might be culture.
Speaker 2:It might be a. Yeah, it might be a.
Speaker 1:What do you call it? I don't know.
Speaker 2:A. Thing. A common practice, common practice that when the husband dies and I think it had a lot to do with land ownership actually, actually that the next closest relative would take responsibility for the widowed wife but also take over farming the land or whatever.
Speaker 1:Right and there was an order of how this went and. I believe it started with a brother.
Speaker 2:It started with a brother, Like if somebody died then his brother would be responsible for being the redeemer to his wife.
Speaker 1:Which Naomi hinted at, that in chapter one, right. But in this case we come across someone who is an actual one of the redeemers cross, someone who is an actual one of the Redeemers. So this is just saying there might be more, but there is at least one Redeemer. So someone who could redeem Ruth and be Ruth's husband husband potentially. So you know it's so. God put her not only in a place with a good man who let her have food and other things, but also, just so happens, this guy could be a redeemer. And, by the way, I think it's more than just land ownership. I think the reason they call it a redeemer is because she has no sons yet, and one of the I don't know if it's one of the glories of the women is their sons, if they are able to have a son. And if she's not married, she can't bear a child. Well, she shouldn't bear a child.
Speaker 3:That's not true she shouldn't bear a child.
Speaker 1:Tell that to Mary. Okay, well, that's special, that's special. Why isn't that special special, it's special. Isn't that special. So anyway, I think it's. It redeems the woman so that she is able to, you know, bear children and do what she feels like she's called to do in the Jewish culture. She feels like she's called to do in the Jewish culture, so all right, anyway. So she stayed. I said two months. It might darn it now, I don't remember. Was it one month? Did you just pass gas?
Speaker 1:No, I was thinking what was the noise that?
Speaker 2:I didn't hear a noise, oh, yeah, I heard a okay, um, so you got to keep in mind that the fields don't all get planted at the same time, so they won't all be ready to harvest at the same time. So if it, takes two months to plant the fields. It would take two months to harvest the fields.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and maybe it wasn't every day also. I'm just kind of thinking it's every day. She goes out there and harvests. Maybe there are some days where well can't harvest today, In fact, I'm sure.
Speaker 2:Or it's raining.
Speaker 1:Yeah, or it's raining, yeah, Okay. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it said two months, but you can look that up. Anyway, I think that's it. I don't know what else to say about this.
Speaker 2:Well, I want to point out that in chapter one, Naomi was very bitter. I want to point out that in chapter one, Naomi was very bitter and now in verse 20 here she is praising God and she's happy, she's no longer bitter.
Speaker 1:Ah, that's a good point. In fact, in chapter one she said don't call me Naomi, Call me something else. It's like Mara or something. Yeah, mara, because I am bitter, mara, yep, the for the almighty has dealt very bitterly, bitterly with me. I think she can see god's work here and she, yeah, yeah, she sees that God is doing good things. Alright, anything else, that's it, alright. So next time is Ruth, chapter 3. Let's see, yeah, ruth, chapter 3. Yeah, it's pretty short. Um, I don't think we could do three and four together, though that's pretty long, um, so anyway, uh, I guess that's it, guys, but uh, I'll.
Speaker 1:We'll talk to you next time with ruth, chapter three, maybe a little bit of 4. We'll see how that works. Well, that's an L.
Speaker 3:See ya, and it's Thanksgiving, so happy Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving, guys. Bible.
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