Ruth 1:11-17
Holman Christian Standard Bible
11 But Naomi replied, “Return home, my daughters. Why do you want to go with me? Am I able to have any more sons[a] who could become your husbands?(A) 12 Return home, my daughters. Go on, for I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was still hope for me to have a husband tonight and to bear sons, 13 would you be willing to wait for them to grow up? Would you restrain yourselves from remarrying?[b] No, my daughters, my life is much too bitter for you to share,[c] because the Lord’s hand has turned against me.”(B) 14 Again they wept loudly, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her. 15 Naomi said, “Look, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her god.[d](C) Follow your sister-in-law.”
16 But Ruth replied:
Do not persuade me to leave you
or go back and not follow you.
For wherever you go, I will go,
and wherever you live, I will live;
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.
May Yahweh punish me,[e](D)
and do so severely,
if anything but death separates you and me.
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