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8 episodes
The Gospel Story
Ruth the Moabite retells the Book of Ruth as an intimate family drama set against famine and grief. Driven from Bethlehem by a third year of drought, Elimelech takes his wife Naomi and their two sons east to Moab, where the young men marry Moabite women — Ruth and Orpah — before all three men die, leaving Naomi bitter and empty in a foreign land. When Naomi turns home to Judah, Ruth refuses to leave her, binding herself to Naomi's people and God. In Bethlehem, Ruth's loyalty and labor draw the notice of Boaz, a kinsman-redeemer, and through Naomi's guidance and a public reckoning at the town gate, Ruth becomes his wife. The series closes with the birth of a son who renews Naomi's life — and whose line will lead to David.
8 episodes
Ruth the Moabite retells the Book of Ruth as an intimate family drama set against famine and grief. Driven from Bethlehem by a third year of drought, Elimelech takes his wife Naomi and their two sons east to Moab, where the young men marry Moabite women — Ruth and Orpah — before all three men die, leaving Naomi bitter and empty in a foreign land. When Naomi turns home to Judah, Ruth refuses to leave her, binding herself to Naomi's people and God. In Bethlehem, Ruth's loyalty and labor draw the notice of Boaz, a kinsman-redeemer, and through Naomi's guidance and a public reckoning at the town gate, Ruth becomes his wife. The series closes with the birth of a son who renews Naomi's life — and whose line will lead to David.
8 episodes
1:10
A third failed harvest convinces Elimelech to move his family from Bethlehem east to Moab. Naomi confronts him over leaving God's land for Chemosh's country. She asks whether the same four of them will ever walk home again.
1:16
The family settles among the Moabites, and ten years pass. Mahlon and Chilion have married Ruth and Orpah, the household easy and full. Then Naomi's terrified cry for Elimelech tears through the house.
1:02
Mahlon dies on the same mat as his father, and months later Chilion follows. Three graves now stand in a row on the hillside. Having buried her husband and both sons, Naomi blames their flight from God's land.
0:29
On the road out of Moab, Orpah turns back but Ruth refuses to leave Naomi. She pledges that Naomi's people will be her people and Naomi's God her God. The two widows turn together toward Judah.
1:52
Ruth goes to glean and, by chance, works the field of Boaz, a relative of Naomi. He shows her striking favor, protecting her and ordering extra grain left behind. Hearing his name, Naomi realizes he is one of their redeemers.
1:05
After the harvest, Naomi sends Ruth to the threshing floor to approach Boaz. Washed and dressed in her best, Ruth lies at his uncovered feet and waits. At midnight Boaz wakes, startled to find someone there.
1:17
At the town gate, Boaz confronts the nearer kinsman over Elimelech's land — and over Ruth. The kinsman yields his right with the removal of his sandal. Before the elders and the town, Boaz claims both the land and Ruth as his wife.
1:05
Boaz and Ruth marry, and in time Ruth bears a son. Naomi, who once told the town to call her Mara — bitter — cradles the child they call her redeemer. Years later the boy Obed plays on the hills, grandfather-to-be of David.