Ruth 1:15–22

¹⁵Then she said, “Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her ^agods; return after your sister-in-law.”

¹⁶But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you; for where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God.

¹⁷“Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. Thus may ^athe Lord do to me, and worse, if anything but death parts you and me.”

¹⁸When ^ashe saw that she was determined to go with her, she ¹said no more to her.

¹⁹So they both went until they came to Bethlehem. And when they had come to Bethlehem, ^aall the city was stirred because of them, and ¹the women said, “Is this Naomi?”

²⁰She said to them, “Do not call me ¹Naomi; call me ²Mara, for ^3athe Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

²¹“I went out full, but ^athe Lord has brought me back empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the Lord has witnessed against me and ¹the Almighty has afflicted me?”

²²So Naomi returned, and with her Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, who returned from the land of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem at ^athe beginning of barley harvest.