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Ruth 1:16

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Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return 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.

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Ruth 1:16 in other translations

And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave thee, and to return from following after thee, for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God;

Ruth 1:16 · American Standard Version

Ruth 1:16 in context

  1. 14They lifted up their voices and wept again; then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth stayed with her.
  2. 15She said, “Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law.”
  3. 16Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return 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.
  4. 17Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.”
  5. 18When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.

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