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Hebrews 11:31
By faith, Rahab the prostitute didn’t perish with those who were disobedient, having received the spies in peace.
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Ruth 1:16-17
Ruth said,“ Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God.Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.”
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Joshua 2:1-22
Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as spies, saying,“ Go, view the land, including Jericho.” They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and slept there.The king of Jericho was told,“ Behold, men of the children of Israel came in here tonight to spy out the land.”Jericho’s king sent to Rahab, saying,“ Bring out the men who have come to you, who have entered into your house; for they have come to spy out all the land.”The woman took the two men and hid them. Then she said,“ Yes, the men came to me, but I didn’t know where they came from.About the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, the men went out. Where the men went, I don’t know. Pursue them quickly. You may catch up with them.”But she had brought them up to the roof, and hidden them under the stalks of flax which she had laid in order on the roof.The men pursued them along the way to the fords of the Jordan River. As soon as those who pursued them had gone out, they shut the gate.Before they had lain down, she came up to them on the roof.She said to the men,“ I know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.For we have heard how Yahweh dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom you utterly destroyed.As soon as we had heard it, our hearts melted, and there wasn’t any more spirit in any man, because of you: for Yahweh your God, he is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath.Now therefore, please swear to me by Yahweh, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father’s house, and give me a true sign;and that you will save alive my father, my mother, my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death.”The men said to her,“ Our life for yours, if you don’t talk about this business of ours; and it shall be, when Yahweh gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you.”Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was on the side of the wall, and she lived on the wall.She said to them,“ Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers find you. Hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned. Afterward, you may go your way.”The men said to her,“ We will be guiltless of this your oath which you’ve made us to swear.Behold, when we come into the land, tie this line of scarlet thread in the window which you used to let us down. Gather to yourself into the house your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household.It shall be that whoever goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, and we will be guiltless. Whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is on him.But if you talk about this business of ours, then we shall be guiltless of your oath which you’ve made us to swear.”She said,“ Let it be as you have said.” She sent them away, and they departed. Then she tied the scarlet line in the window.They went and came to the mountain, and stayed there three days, until the pursuers had returned. The pursuers sought them all along the way, but didn’t find them.
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James 2:25
In the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works, in that she received the messengers and sent them out another way?
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Ruth 1:4
They took for themselves wives of the women of Moab. The name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other was Ruth. They lived there about ten years.
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Joshua 6:22-25
Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land,“ Go into the prostitute’s house, and bring the woman and all that she has out from there, as you swore to her.”The young men who were spies went in, and brought out Rahab with her father, her mother, her brothers, and all that she had. They also brought out all of her relatives, and they set them outside of the camp of Israel.They burned the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only they put the silver, the gold, and the vessels of bronze and of iron into the treasury of Yahweh’s house.But Rahab the prostitute, her father’s household, and all that she had, Joshua saved alive. She lives in the middle of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
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Ruth 1:22-2:4
So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter- in- law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab. They came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.Naomi had a relative of her husband’s, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi,“ Let me now go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I find favor.” She said to her,“ Go, my daughter.”She went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers; and she happened to come to the portion of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.Behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers,“ May Yahweh be with you.” They answered him,“ May Yahweh bless you.”
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Luke 3:32
the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon,
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1 Chronicles 2 11-1 Chronicles 2 12
and Nahshon became the father of Salma, and Salma became the father of Boaz,and Boaz became the father of Obed, and Obed became the father of Jesse;
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Ruth 4:21
and Salmon became the father of Boaz, and Boaz became the father of Obed,