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Bethlehem: A City Southwest of Jerusalem: The City of Boaz Ruth 1:1, 19

In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a certain man from Bethlehem in Judah, with his wife and two sons, went to reside in the land of Moab. / So Naomi and Ruth traveled until they came to Bethlehem. When they entered Bethlehem, the whole city was stirred because of them, and the women of the city exclaimed, “Can this be Naomi?”

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Bethlehem: A City Southwest of Jerusalem: The City of Boaz Ruth 2:4

Just then Boaz arrived from Bethlehem and said to the harvesters, “The LORD be with you.” “The LORD bless you,” they replied.

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Bethlehem: A City Southwest of Jerusalem: The City of Boaz Ruth 4:1

Meanwhile, Boaz went to the gate and sat down there. Soon the kinsman-redeemer of whom he had spoken came along, and Boaz said, “Come over here, my friend, and sit down.” So he went over and sat down.

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