Ruth 1:6–22

⁶Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the Lord had ^fvisited his people in ^ggiving them bread. ⁷Wherefore she went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters in law with her; and they went on the way to return unto the land of Judah. ⁸And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother’s house: the Lord ^hdeal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with ⁱthe dead, and with me. ⁹The Lord grant you that ye may find ^krest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept. ¹⁰And they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy people. ¹¹And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? are there yet any more sons in my womb, ^lthat they may be your husbands? ¹²Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, ^||if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons; ¹³Would ye ^†tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for ^†it grieveth me much for your sakes that ^mthe hand of the Lord is gone out against me. ¹⁴And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her. 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.