Book of Ruth

The Book of Ruth (Hebrew: מְגִלַּת רוּת, Megillath Ruth, "the Scroll of Ruth", one of the Five Megillot) is part of the third (final) division — Writings (Ketuvim) — of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh). In common printed Hebrew Bible ordering, the book appears between Song of Songs and Lamentations. In Jewish liturgy, the book is traditionally read in synagogues during the Jewish holiday of Shavuot ("Weeks"). It narrates the story of Ruth, a Moabite, who follows her Judean mother-in-law Naomi returning to her family’s ancestral town of Bethlehem, after the deaths of their husbands.

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Late Biblical Hebrew