Ruth 1
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Ruth 1:16-18

16But Ruth answered, “Don’t force me to leave you. Don’t make me turn back from following you. Wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.

17Wherever you die, I will die, and I will be buried there with you. May the Lord strike me down if anything but death separates you and me!”

18When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she ended the conversation.

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