Ruth 1:8-18 ▼

8 Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, |Go, return each of you to her mother's house. May the LORD deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead, and with me.

9 The LORD grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.| Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voice, and wept.

10 They said to her, |No, but we will return with you to your people.|

11 Naomi said, |Go back, my daughters. Why do you want to go with me? Do I still have sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?

12 Go back, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, 'I have hope,' if I should even have a husband tonight, and should also bear sons;

13 would you then wait until they were grown? Would you then refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, for it grieves me much for your sakes, for the hand of the LORD has gone out against me.|

14 They lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law and returned to her people, but Ruth clung to her.

15 She said, |Look, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people, and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law.

16 Ruth said, |Do not urge me to leave you, and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay; your people shall be my people, and your God my God;

17 where you die, will I die, and there will I be buried. The LORD do so to me, and more also, if anything but death part you and me.|

18 When she saw that she was steadfastly minded to go with her, she left off speaking to her.