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Ruth 1:17-22 Amplified Bible (AMP)

17. Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts me from you.

18. When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she said no more.

19. So they both went on until they came to Bethlehem. And when they arrived in Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred about them, and said, Is this Naomi?

20. And she said to them, Call me not Naomi [pleasant]; call me Mara [bitter], for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

21. I went out full, but the Lord has brought me home again empty. Why call me Naomi, since the Lord has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?

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

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