16. Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return 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.
17. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May The Lord do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.”
18. When she saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.
19. So they both went until they came to Bethlehem. When they had come to Bethlehem, all the city was excited about them, and they asked, “Is this Naomi?”