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What Is Moabite in the Bible?

Person

From Moab, a country on the other side of the Dead Sea. Ruth, the great-grandmother of David, was a Moabite.

Where it appears in the Bible

Ruth 1:4; Ruth 4:17

What the Bible says

Ruth 1:4

And they took wives of the women of Moab, of which one was called Orpha, and the other Ruth. And they dwelt there ten years.

Ruth 4:17

And the women her neighbours, congratulating with her and saying: There is a son born to Noemi: called his name Obed: he is the father of Isai, the father of David.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.

Source: Ruth 1:4; Ruth 4:13-17

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