Ruth 1:16-22
English Standard Version
16 But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. (A)Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. 17 Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. (B)May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.” 18 (C)And when Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more.
Naomi and Ruth Return
19 So the two of them went on until they came to Bethlehem. And when they came to Bethlehem, (D)the whole town was stirred because of them. And the women said, “Is this Naomi?” 20 She said to them, “Do not call me Naomi;[a] call me (E)Mara,[b] for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. 21 (F)I went away full, and the Lord has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi, when the Lord has testified against me and the Almighty has brought calamity upon me?”
22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabite her daughter-in-law with her, who returned from the country of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem (G)at the beginning of barley harvest.
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