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How was Ruth connected to Lot according to biblical genealogy?
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Sodom and Gomorrah
Landscape with the Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, oil on wood by Joachim Patinir, c. 1520; in the collection of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
According to the biblical narrative, Ruth is connected to Lot through her identity as a Moabite woman.12
In the book of Genesis, Lot’s daughters conceive children by their father after the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. The firstborn daughter gives birth to a son named Moab, who becomes the ancestor of the Moabite people. As Ruth is identified in the Book of Ruth as a Moabite, she is considered a descendant of Lot through this lineage.13