Ruth 1:14-18 ▼

14 And they lift up their voice, and weep again, and Orpah kisses her mother-in-law, and Ruth has cleaved to her.

15 And she says, “Behold, your sister-in-law has turned back to her people, and to her god, turn back after your sister-in-law.”

16 And Ruth says, “Do not urge me to leave you—to turn back from after you; for to where you go I go, and where you lodge I lodge; your people [is] my people, and your God my God.

17 Where you die I die, and there I am buried; thus does YHWH to me, and thus He adds—for death itself parts between me and you.”

18 And she sees that she is strengthening herself to go with her, and she ceases to speak to her;