12. Go home, my daughters! I am too old to have a husband. Even if I were to say that there was hope for me and I could get married tonight, and then bore sons,
13. would you wait for them to grow up? Would you therefore hold off getting married? No, my daughters, it is more bitter for me than for you—for the hand of Adonai has gone out against me!”
14. Again they broke into loud weeping. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye. But Ruth clung to her.
15. She said, “Look, your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Return, along with your sister-in-law!”
16. Ruth replied, “Do not plead with me to abandon you, to turn back from following you. For where you go, I will go, and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God.