¹⁶ But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you^(A) or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go,^(B) and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people^(C) and your God my God.^(D)

¹² Through the offspring the Lord gives you by this young woman, may your family be like that of Perez,^(A) whom Tamar^(B) bore to Judah.”