10. and said to her, “No! We will go with you to your people.”
11. “You must go back, my daughters,” Naomi answered. “Why do you want to come with me? Do you think I could have sons again for you to marry?
12. Go back home, for I am too old to get married again. Even if I thought there was still hope, and so got married tonight and had sons,
13. would you wait until they had grown up? Would this keep you from marrying someone else? No, my daughters, you know that's impossible. The Lord has turned against me, and I feel very sorry for you.”
14. Again they started crying. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye and went back home, but Ruth held on to her.
15. So Naomi said to her, “Ruth, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her god. Go back home with her.”
16. But Ruth answered, “Don't ask me to leave you! Let me go with you. Wherever you go, I will go; wherever you live, I will live. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.
17. Wherever you die, I will die, and that is where I will be buried. May the Lord's worst punishment come upon me if I let anything but death separate me from you!”
18. When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she said nothing more.
19. They went on until they came to Bethlehem. When they arrived, the whole town got excited, and the women there exclaimed, “Is this really Naomi?”