““We are witnesses,” said the elders and all the people at the gate. “May the LORD make the woman entering your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you be prosperous in Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem.”
Ruth 4:11
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Connection with Leah and Rachel
Jacob loved Rachel more than Leah, and the two sisters were rivals. Israel did not hide that story: centuries later the elders blessed Ruth with both names, the unloved wife beside the loved one. The couple they blessed became great-grandparents of David, Judah's king.
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Built here is banah, the verb Rachel used when she gave Bilhah to Jacob so that she too could build a family (Genesis 30:3). Generations later the elders of Bethlehem blessed Ruth with both rival sisters in one breath, as the women who together built Israel.
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