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Back to the details; you have said that you don't think Ruth or Rahab would not have been eligible to be in the linage of Christ if they were in fact a Moabitess and a harlot.

I never said she (Rahab) was unwelcome to the lineage of Our Lord because she was a harlot. What I said was this: [Deuteronomy 7:1-4] When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou; And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them: Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly. Rahab was a Canaanite.

The reason I mentioned harlot was to differentiate Rahab from Rachab of [Matthew 1:5]....the mother of Boaz. They have differently spelled names and Rachab is not given the "Harlot" adjective like all scriptures dealing with Rahab......both Old and New Testament.

Now The Kingdom of Moab was not mentioned in the above command from The Lord because they did not enter The Kingdom of Moab [Deuteronomy 2:8-9] And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Eziongaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab. And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.

The part of Moab that became "Israelite Moab" had been taken from the Moabites previously by the Amorites [Deuteronomy 2:24][Numbers 21:23-26] and indeed Moses is here speaking to the Israelites on "The Plains of Moab" [Numbers 35:1-2][Numbers 33:48-50]....now belonging to Israel....and the eventual birthplace and home of Ruth.

And, of course....another reason Ruth was not of The Kingdom of Moab was [Deuteronomy 23:3] An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever.