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Ruth 1:15-18
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15 Naomi said, “Look, your sister-in-law has returned to her people and her gods. Return with her!”

16 But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn back from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you stay, I will stay. 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 the Lord do thus to me, and worse, if anything but death separates you and me!” 18 When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more to her.

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Ruth 1:15-18
Lexham English Bible

15 And she said, “Look, your sister-in-law has returned to her people and to her gods. Return after your sister-in-law too.”

16 But Ruth said, “Do not urge[a] me to leave you or to return from following you![b] For where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. 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. So may Yahweh do to me, and even more, unless[c] death separates you and me!”[d] 18 When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 1:16 Literally “You shall not press me”
  2. Ruth 1:16 Literally “from behind you”
  3. Ruth 1:17 Literally “and so may he do again, that”
  4. Ruth 1:17 Literally “makes a separation between you and between me”
  5. Ruth 1:18 Literally “she ceased to speak to her”
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