Ruth 1:15–22

¹⁵And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: ⁿreturn thou after thy sister in law. ¹⁶And Ruth said, ^||Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: ^othy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: ¹⁷Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: ^pthe Lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me. ^18qWhen she saw that she ^†was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she left speaking unto her.

¹⁹So they two went until they came to Beth-lehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Beth-lehem, that ^rall the city was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi? ²⁰And she said unto them, Call me not ^||Naomi, call me ^||Mara: for ^sthe Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. ²¹I went out full, ^tand the Lord hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the Lord hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me? ²²So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Beth-lehem ^uin the beginning of barley harvest.