@Niam2020 #182452
Putting aside that by his lights, Boaz betrayed the Fifth Commandment by marrying Ruth, a Moabite. Definitely “bad” miscegenation back then, considering the propaganda claim of Moab being a child of incest in Genesis and the laws’ decree that only a 1/512 amount of Ammonite or Moabite lineage was acceptable before the tabernacle (assuming I’ve worked out “tenth generation” correctly as ninth level of descendant).
I wouldn’t be surprised if Ezra and/or Nehemiah were involved in canonizing that demand.
Either way, the result is Jesus himself being a descendant or honorary descendant of the “accursed” Moabites. The advocates of racial purity should be in a fix with that one, as I doubt even fifteen generations will suffice to remove the Moabite “taint” in their eyes.