⁴ And they took for themselves Moabite women as wives; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other, Ruth. And they lived there about ten years.

¹⁶ But Ruth said, “Do not plead with me to leave you or to turn back from following you; for where you go, I will go, and where you sleep, I will sleep. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God. ¹⁷ Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May ^(A)the Lord do so to me, and worse, if anything but death separates ^[a]me from you.” ¹⁸ When ^(B)she saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped speaking to her about it.