THE BOOK OF RUTH
WORKING THROUGH CHAPTER BY CHAPTER
I find it
very useful to pick up Hebrew vocabulary using this method.
This is for those who want to advance later. Save the files below so that you can use it in the future. It took me a lot of time listening to the reading and splitting the book of Ruth to its individual chapters.
(1) Work
your way through each chapter trying to read and understand every word
(2) Once you have worked through it, listen to the chapter many times while you are driving or cooking. Try to comprehend what you hear.
Please download before they are removed from the Google Drive. Here is the link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1wnemkXyEpmEJZfn9P4LAahiw6bLvsxp5.
FOLLOW-UP
AFTER THIS:
If anyone
wants to read Ruth together, we can try it using Zoom or Webex at a suitable
time. I am still not very good yet at my reading, but I am working hard at it.
I want to be able to understand what I read or hear in order for God's Word to
sink in.
As I was working through Ruth 1, I saw more than the ordinary conversation that the mother and daughters-in-law had. It was a kind of a family affairs that we get to experience. It is interesting that the in-laws were so caring of each other. There was no selfishness in Naomi despite of her losing her husband and two sons.
The family had moved out to Moab during the famine in Israel -- and the word that was used of Moab is not the typical 'country' ('goy' in Hebrew) but the open fields ('sadeh' in Hebrew). The same word 'sadeh' was used in Genesis 1-3 as well. It's somewhat like the Safaris; therefore, both Orpah and Ruth were kind of like the aborigines of Moab. There was no civilisation but just open fields.
Thank you
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