Ruth was not an ethnic Moabite; she was a resident or citizen of what continued to be known as the fields or plains of Moab. Ruben, Gad and Manasseh had the area from the River Arnon to Mount Hermon for hundreds of years. Why on earth would the Moabites who hated Israel so much allow a Jewish family to dwell among them? Naomi and her family went to the fertile plains or fields of Moab, an area that remained with that name for a long time. Ruth the "Moabite" was an Israelite (Ruben?) resident of that area who, like many Israelites did, embraced the local pagan deities. To her credit she did teshuva returning to the Elohim of her ancestors but Ruth was as much a Moabite as Moses was an Egyptian.Ruth was not an ethnic Moabite; she was a resident or citizen of what continued to be known as the fields or plains of Moab. Ruben, Gad and Manasseh had the area from the River Arnon to Mount Hermon for hundreds of years. Why on earth would the Moabites who hated Israel so much allow a Jewish family to dwell among them? Naomi and her family went to the fertile plains or fields of Moab, an area that remained with that name for a long time. Ruth the "Moabite" was an Israelite (Ruben?) resident of that area who, like many Israelites did, embraced the local pagan deities. To her credit she did teshuva returning to the Elohim of her ancestors but Ruth was as much a Moabite as Moses was an Egyptian.
Ruth was not an ethnic Moabite; she was a resident or citizen of what continued to be known as the fields or plains of Moab. Ruben, Gad and Manasseh had the area from the River Arnon to Mount Hermon for hundreds of years. Why on earth would the Moabites who hated Israel so much allow a Jewish family to dwell among them? Naomi and her family went to the fertile plains or fields of Moab, an area that remained with that name for a long time. Ruth the "Moabite" was an Israelite (Ruben?) resident of that area who, like many Israelites did, embraced the local pagan deities. To her credit she did teshuva returning to the Elohim of her ancestors but Ruth was as much a Moabite as Moses was an Egyptian.Ruth was not an ethnic Moabite; she was a resident or citizen of what continued to be known as the fields or plains of Moab. Ruben, Gad and Manasseh had the area from the River Arnon to Mount Hermon for hundreds of years. Why on earth would the Moabites who hated Israel so much allow a Jewish family to dwell among them? Naomi and her family went to the fertile plains or fields of Moab, an area that remained with that name for a long time. Ruth the "Moabite" was an Israelite (Ruben?) resident of that area who, like many Israelites did, embraced the local pagan deities. To her credit she did teshuva returning to the Elohim of her ancestors but Ruth was as much a Moabite as Moses was an Egyptian.