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14 Again they started crying. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law good-bye and went back home,[a] but Ruth held on to her. 15 So Naomi said to her, “Ruth, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her god.[b] Go back home with her.”

16 But Ruth answered, “Don't ask me to leave you! Let me go with you. Wherever you go, I will go; wherever you live, I will live. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 1:14 One ancient translation and went back home; Hebrew does not have these words.
  2. Ruth 1:15 god; or gods.

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