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Daily Devotion for 16 July 2024 (9th Tuesday after Pentecost)
Readings Psalm 21 Judges 16:4–30 Galatians 4:12–31 Apology of the Augsburg Confession, II, 5–22 Commemoration Today we commemorate Ruth. A native of Moab, and therefore not a natural descendant of Abraham, Ruth is the subject of the biblical book that bears her name and a study in God’s grace. During a famine in Israel, Elimelech and Naomi of Bethlehem moved to Moab with their two sons; the sons married Moabite women and then a decade or so later died, leaving the women as widows. Naomi told her daughters-in-law to return to their people, but Ruth refused, stating: “Where you go I will go…
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