¹⁶ But Ruth said, “Do not urge^[a] me to leave you or to return from following you!^[b] For where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people will be my people and your God will be my God. ¹⁷ Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. So may Yahweh do to me, and even more, unless^[c] death separates you and me!”^[d]