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The Bible is the story of a __________ God who is not willing for people to die and is determined to redeem them.

The Book of Judges ends witht he statement that because "there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes."  Bad ________________ was destroying the people and the nation.

The name "Bethlehem" means the house of __________.

The name "Moab" means the place of __________.

The name "Mahlon" means _________.

The name "Naomi" means "pleasant", but Naomi renamed herself ______ which means "bitterness".

Naomi realized she had made the most tragic error of her life by going to the country of Moab in order to escape the __________ in Bethlehem.

Naomi decided to return to Bethlehem because she had heard that "the LORD had visited His people in giving them __________."

The word "abide" means to "continue", "remain" and "dwell" and is used a total of 23 times in the Book of 1st John.  It is always a mark of _____________ when a person learns to abide, to keep on keeping on instead of trying to run away from problems.

Neither Naomi nor the prodigal son returned home because of their love for home.  It was because they were _________ that they went back.

It is not enough for us to show great emotion for God, as Orpah did.  We must make a ________________, like Ruth did.

The name "Ruth" means _________.

Ruth 1:22 says that "they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest".  Barley was called the "Bread of ________________"

The name "Boaz" means "mighty man of __________".

The Hebrew word "goel" is a very important word which means _______________.

In order for a person to be able to "redeem" someone, he must be ____________ to them.

It is impossible for us to redeem ourselves because we are unable to pay the debt of ______.

Jesus Christ is the only one qualified to be our _______________.

A ____________ was a poor person working behind the reapers picking up the single heads of grain that had fallen to the ground.

Boaz gave special _________ to Ruth.

Naomi gave Ruth some important advice in Ruth 2:21.  She said for her to:
Stay in the fields of Boaz;
Stay until the _____________ ends; and
Stay with your mother-in-law.

Ruth had been working hard in the harvest field.  If Ruth was going to get married, she needed to _________ herself of all the defilement of working in the fields.

The same pattern of cleansing, anointing, clothing and hiding shown in the Book of Ruth was used for the _______________ of new priests in the Book of Leviticus.

In Ruth 2:12, Ruth was actually proposing ___________ to Boaz by asking him to redeem her from being a widow.

When Boaz gave Ruth six measures of grain to carry to Naomi, he was promising that the best was yet to come; that he would yet complete his promise to Ruth.  In the Bible, the number six is an _______________ number.

The man who had been a closer kin to Elimelech than Boaz "took off his ________" and gave to Boaz to signify that Boaz had bought property that would otherwise pass to him.

Redemption was now complete and for the first time in this book, Ruth was no longer called a _________________.  Ruth 4:13

The Book of Ruth is the story of two _______________.

Elimelech and Naomi represent natural Israel and the old covenant of ____.

Boaz and Ruth represent Christ and His ___________ in the new covenant of love.