Ruth the Moabite

Refuses to leave the bitter widowed mother-in-law: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God; gleans in the field of Boaz; spreads her skirt over the kinsman by night; is redeemed; becomes great-grandmother of David. Restoration path: Bind yourself by oath to the people you have chosen; glean where the kinsman field happens to be; rest at the threshing-floor; receive the redemption. Markers: foreign convert; binds self to bitter mother; gleans humbly in the right field; approaches the kinsman with the right vulnerability; redeemed into the line