⁵ Only be very careful to ^[a]follow the commandment and the Law which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to ^(A)love the Lord your God and walk in all His ways, and keep His commandments and cling to Him, and serve Him ^(B)with all your heart and with all your soul.”

⁸ But you are to cling to the Lord your God, as you have done to this day.

¹² For if you ever go back and ^(A)cling to the rest of these nations, these which remain with you, and ^(B)intermarry with them, so that you ^[a]associate with them and they with you,

Ruth’s Loyalty

¹⁴ And they raised their voices and wept again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.

²⁷ Therefore, the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and to your ^[a]descendants forever.” So he went out from his presence ^(A)afflicted with leprosy, as white as snow.