17 Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May (A)the Lord do so to me, and worse, if anything but death separates [a]me from you.”

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 1:17 Lit between me and you

17 Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely,(A) if even death separates you and me.”(B)

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17 Then he said, “What is this gravestone there that I see?” And the men of the city told him, “(A)It is the grave of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things which you have done against the altar of Bethel.” 18 And he said, “Leave him alone; no one is to disturb his bones.” So they left his bones undisturbed (B)with the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria.

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17 The king asked, “What is that tombstone I see?”

The people of the city said, “It marks the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and pronounced against the altar of Bethel the very things you have done to it.”

18 “Leave it alone,” he said. “Don’t let anyone disturb his bones(A).” So they spared his bones and those of the prophet(B) who had come from Samaria.

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