Grietje Commelin

“So she [Ruth] set out and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers, and she happened to come to the part of the

“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

“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

“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

“But Naomi said, ‘Turn back, my daughters; why will you go with me?’” (Ruth 1:11) Naomi is on her way to Israel. Her two daughters-in-law

“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

“Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, died, and she was left with her two sons. … and both Mahlon and Chilion died, so that the woman

“A man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.” (Ruth 1:1) When

“In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land” (Ruth 1:1) The book of Ruth is set in the days