Timeline for Why Ruth is called Ruth, the Moabite, when Balak, her direct male-line ancestor, was actually a midianite?
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Jul 25, 2019 at 6:01 | answer | added | alicht | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 25, 2019 at 4:07 | answer | added | Menachem | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 25, 2019 at 2:43 | comment | added | ezra | My family is not originally from the United States but we're American. | |
| Jul 25, 2019 at 0:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackJudaism/status/1154179589494755330 | ||
| Jul 24, 2019 at 21:53 | comment | added | user15464 | She was decsended from Eglon through the fathers line who was Moabite, it could be Balaks duaghter married a Moabite man and they fathered Eglon so she Ruth the male lineage was from Eglonyet her matrilineage was from Bilam | |
| Jul 24, 2019 at 21:30 | comment | added | יהושע ק | She was from Moab and her father was the King of Moab. Should be reason enough ;) | |
| Jul 24, 2019 at 21:02 | comment | added | Maurice Mizrahi | Midian was the son of Abraham (and Keturah) and Moab was the son of Lot, Abraham's nephew. So it's all in the family. :-) | |
| Jul 24, 2019 at 20:58 | comment | added | user15253 | Probably because they'd been living in Moab for a very long time | |
| Jul 24, 2019 at 20:51 | history | asked | Daniel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |