00:00The story of Ruth teaches the people about divine universality.
00:12During the time when the judges ruled, there was a period of famine that forced many to emigrate to other places in search of well-being.
00:21A man from Bethlehem in Judah emigrated to the land of Moab along with his wife and two sons.
00:27This man's name was Elimelech.
00:30And his wife, Naomi.
00:32As time passed, he died, leaving Naomi alone with her children, who later married Moabite women, Orpah and Ruth.
00:42It wasn't long before Maglon and Chilion, Naomi's sons, died.
00:49Then Naomi becomes a widow without children, so she decides to send her daughters-in-law away so they can remarry and find someone to take care of them.
00:58At first, both women refused.
01:02However, she insisted.
01:04Orfa said goodbye to her mother-in-law, but Ruth refused to leave her, clinging to her.
01:10At the same time, he expresses some of the most beautiful words of love and fidelity found in the Bible, which, curiously, people believe are the words a lover would say to their partner.
01:24But why not the mother-in-law?
01:27Don't ask me to leave you and separate myself from you.
01:31I will go where you go and live where you live.
01:35Your people will be my people and your God will be my God.
01:40I will die where you die, and that is where I want to be buried.
01:43May the Lord punish me severely if I stray from you, except by death.
01:51Afterwards, Ruth and Naomi left for Bethlehem on their way back to the land of Imelec, where upon arrival they went to the field of a relative of his named Bozo.
02:03Ruth goes to collect the ears of grain that fall from the reapers in this field.
02:07His work is notoriously hard-working yet discreet.
02:14This catches the owner's attention, who asks about her origin, to which the blind men tell him that she is a Moabite, that is, a foreigner who is Naomi's daughter-in-law.
02:26The young woman's story deeply affects her relative, who approaches her to offer support and help.
02:33Having received permission from Bozo to work in his field without being disturbed, Ruth remains picking ears of grain on one side of the slave women in the field until the harvest time is over.
02:47In those times, when a man died without leaving offspring, his wife could be claimed by the deceased's closest relative to ensure he had descendants.
02:59This law is known as the law of the evirate.
03:04Knowing this law, Noemí instructs Ruth to go to Bozo and remind him about this right.
03:11Linked to the law of the evirate is another law called the goel, which consists of looking after the welfare or economic rescue of a relative who has become impoverished in order to prevent the alienation of property.
03:25In other words, instead of selling my goods to a stranger, the goel has the obligation to buy my possessions so that they do not leave the clan.
03:36Bozo knows that there is another relative who has this obligation before him.
03:40So, given his obvious interest in Ruth, he goes to this relative to explain the situation.
03:46But not before warning him that by taking the lands of the widow Naomi, he must also take Ruth as his wife.
03:54Having explained the situation in front of the village elders as witnesses, the relative decides that he does not want his inheritance affected, so he gives this right to Bozo.
04:04Let's read the conclusion of this book.
04:06Then Bozo said to the elders and those present.
04:13You are all witnesses today that I am buying the properties of Limelec, Quilión and Maglón from Noemí.
04:22They also bear witness that I took Ruth, the Moabite widow, as my wife, so that the property would remain in the name of Maglon, her deceased husband.
04:32Thus, Maglón's name will not be erased from among his people, nor will he be forgotten in this town.
04:38Today you are witnesses.
04:41That is how Bozo married Ruth and joined with her, and the Lord allowed her to become pregnant and have a son.
04:50Naomi took the child in her lap and took charge of raising him.
04:54When the neighbors saw him, they said, "Naomi has had a son," and they named him Obed.
05:02This was the father of Jesus and grandfather of David.
05:09The Book of Ruth is a short story that is oriented towards divine universality.
05:16God makes no distinctions when choosing.
05:19The book brings to the people the memory of King David and his ancestors, among whom was this Moabite woman named Ruth.
05:28This is where the narrative of the providential events that led Ruth to settle with her mother-in-law Naomi in Bethlehem of Judah is inserted.
05:36where we already saw, she marries Bozo, thus becoming the grandparents of King David, the quintessential king.
05:43However, many things still had to happen before David's arrival to the king.
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