¹³ She shall also ^[a]remove the clothes of her captivity and shall remain in your house and ^(A)weep for her father and mother a full month; and after that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

¹⁶ But Ruth said, “Do not press me to forsake you in turning back from following you; for where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God. ¹⁷ Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. Thus may ^(A)Yahweh do to me, and more, if anything but death separates you and me.”