16. But Ruth said, “Do not press me to go back and abandon you!Wherever you go I will go,wherever you lodge I will lodge.Your people shall be my peopleand your God, my God.
17. Where you die I will die,and there be buried.May the Lord do thus to me, and more, if even death separates me from you!”
18. Naomi then ceased to urge her, for she saw she was determined to go with her.