Ruth 1:15–22

¹⁵And she said, “Look, your sister-in-law has returned to her people and to her gods. Return after your sister-in-law too.”

¹⁶But Ruth said, “Do not urgeⁿ me to leave you or to return from following you!^o For where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people will be my people and your God will be my God. ¹⁷Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. So may Yahweh do to me, and even more, unless^p death separates you and me!”^{q 18}When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more.^r

¹⁹So the two of them went until they came to Bethlehem. And when they came^s to Bethlehem, all of the town was stirred because of them. And they said, “Is this Naomi?” ²⁰And she said to them, “You should not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for Shaddai^t has caused me to be very bitter.^{u 21}I went away full, but Yahweh brought me back empty-handed! Why call me Naomi when Yahweh has testified against me^v and Shaddai^w has brought calamity upon me?” ²²So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabite her daughter-in-law with her, returning from the countryside of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of the harvest of barley.