I long for your deliverance, O Lord; I find delight in your law.

The Lord wanted to exhibit his justice by magnifying his law and displaying it. ¹ 

“The Lord who rules over all says, ‘Ask the priests about the law. ¹ 

Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, brought ¹  a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, ²  and Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat food ³  with the father-in-law of Moses before God.

and she returned to her mother-in-law.When Ruth returned to her mother-in-law, Naomi ¹  asked, ²  “How did things turn out for you, ³  my daughter?” Ruth ⁴  told her about all the man had done for her. ⁵ 

Everyone who does not observe both the law of your God and the law of the king will be completely ¹  liable to the appropriate penalty, whether it is death or banishment or confiscation of property or detainment in prison.”

“This is the law of the temple: The entire area on top of the mountain all around will be most holy. Indeed, this is the law of the temple.

“All Israel has broken ¹  your law and turned away by not obeying you. ²  Therefore you have poured out on us the judgment solemnly threatened ³  in the law of Moses the servant of God, for we have sinned against you. ⁴ 

For a son thinks his father is a fool, a daughter challenges ¹  her mother, and a daughter-in-law her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are his own servants. ² 

Tamar was told, ¹  “Look, your father-in-law is going up ²  to Timnah to shear his sheep.”

Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire ¹  of God.

Then Moses sent his father-in-law on his way, ¹  and so Jethro ²  went ³  to his own land. ⁴ 

“‘This is the law of the peace offering sacrifice which he ¹  is to present to the Lord.

to teach when something is unclean and when it is clean. ¹  This is the law for dealing with infectious disease.” ² 

One law and one custom must apply to you and to the resident foreigner who lives alongside you.’”

‘Cursed is the one who refuses to keep the words of this law.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

There, in the presence of the Israelites, Joshua inscribed on the stones a duplicate of the law written by Moses. ¹ 

When the man got ready to leave, ¹  his father-in-law convinced him to stay another night. ² 

Again they wept loudly. ¹  Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, ²  but Ruth ³  clung tightly to her. ⁴ 

Pharaoh liked Hadad so well ¹  he gave him his sister-in-law (Queen Tahpenes’ sister) as a wife. ²