Commentary for Bava Kamma 76:1
מואבים עצמן לא כל שכן
in the case of the Moabites [themselves] should not the same injunction apply even more strongly? But the Holy One, blessed be He, said to him: The idea you have in your mind is not the idea I have in My mind. Two doves have I to bring forth from them;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Moabites and the Ammonites, who must therefore be saved. ');"><sup>1</sup></span> Ruth the Moabitess and Naamah the Ammonitess. Now cannot we base on this an <i>a fortiori</i> argument as follows: If for the sake of two virtuous descendants the Holy One, blessed be He, showed pity to two great nations so that they were not destroyed, may we not be assured that if your honour's daughter had indeed been righteous and worthy to have goodly issue, she would have continued to live?
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