Ruth

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Last night I was trying to figure out what I wanted to study today for the first day of Lent. And Shaina suggested that I study some of the women of the Bible, which I thought was a pretty good suggestion. When, I thought about it more, I realized that it's something I haven't studied very much, but I'm very interested in it

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More on Ruth

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If you read Matthews geneology you will notice that he includes mention of 5 women in the line of Jesus. This is important because Jewish geneologies normally don't include or give credit to the mother. But in Matthew's geneology you have Tamar ( who slept with her father-in-law in order to get pregnant), Rahab (who was a protitute and a non-hebrew), Ruth (another non-hebrew whose relationship with Boaz before they were married could have raised eye-brows. Look up what it means to "uncover his feet"), Uriah's wife "Bathsheba" ( who was guilty of adultry) and Mary whose husband was Joseph (but who was not Jesus' father) Think about these women and why Matthew includes them in the geneology of Jesus.

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