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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Her devotion to her mother-in-law set an example for how people should treat family members.
A
Esther
B
Ann
C
Mary
D
Ruth
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The expression ‘wherever you go, I will go’ became heightened or intensified in the second line with Ruth’s words ‘and wherever you lodge, I will lodge’. This kind of parallelism is what Alter (2000:19) referred to as a device of heightening or intensification.

Detailed explanation-2: -In one of the most famous lines in the Old Testament, Ruth tells Naomi, “Where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God” (1:16).

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