Ruth ch. 1
Then Naomi started to return with her daughters-in-law from the country of Moab, and Naomi said to
her two daughters-in-law, ‘Go back each of you to your mother’s house. May the Lord deal kindly with
you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me’. Then they wept aloud again. Orpah kissed her
mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her. So she said, ‘See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people
and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law.’
But Ruth said,
‘Do not press me to leave you
or to turn back from following you!
Where you go, I will go;
where you lodge, I will lodge;
your people shall be my people,
and your God my God.
Where you die, I will die—
there will I be buried.
May the Lord do thus and so to me,
and more as well,
if even death parts me from you!’
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