Ruth 1:6-18

6Then she got up, along with her daughters-in-law to return from the region of Moab, because in the region of Moab she had heard that Adonai had taken note of His people and given them food.

7So she left the place where she was, along with her two daughters-in-law, and they started out on the road to return to the land of Judah.

8So Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each of you to your mother’s house. May Adonai show you the same kindness that you have shown to the dead and to me.

9May Adonai grant that you find rest, each of you in the house of her own husband.” Then she kissed them and they wept loudly.

10“No!” they said to her, “we will return with you to your people.”

11Now Naomi said, “Go back, my daughters! Why should you go with me? Do I have more sons in my womb who could become your husbands?

12Go home, my daughters! I am too old to have a husband. Even if I were to say that there was hope for me and I could get married tonight, and then bore sons,

13would you wait for them to grow up? Would you therefore hold off getting married? No, my daughters, it is more bitter for me than for you—for the hand of Adonai has gone out against me!”

14Again they broke into loud weeping. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye. But Ruth clung to her.

15She said, “Look, your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Return, along with your sister-in-law!”

16Ruth replied, “Do not plead with me to abandon you, to turn back from following you. For where you go, I will go, and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God.

17Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Adonai deal with me, and worse, if anything but death comes between me and you!”

18When she saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she no longer spoke to Ruth about it.