Rut 4:10, 2Ki 10:2, Neh 13:1 | ESV | STEP | Also Ruth the Moabite , the widow of Mahlon , I have bought to be my wife , to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance , that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his native place . You are witnesses this day .

b ch. 8:3, 8, 9, 18; 9:3; [Deut. 31:11, 12; 2 Kgs. 23:2]

Ruth 4:10

10 Also Ruth the Moabite, the widow of Mahlon, I have bought to be my wife, ^ato perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his native place. You are witnesses this day.”

2 Kings 10:2

2 “Now then, as soon as this letter comes to you, seeing your master’s sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, fortified cities also, and weapons,

Nehemiah 13:1

Nehemiah’s Final Reforms

1 On that day ^bthey read from the Book of Moses in the hearing of the people. And in it was found written ^cthat no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,