13. Would you wait until the babies were grown into men? Would you live for so many years without husbands? Don’t do this thing. My life is much too sad for you to share. This is because the Lord is against me!”
14. The women cried together again. Then Orpah kissed Naomi good-bye, but Ruth held on to her.
15. Naomi said, “Look, your sister-in-law is going back to her own people and her own gods. Go back with her.”
16. But Ruth said, “Don’t ask me to leave you! Don’t beg me not to follow you! Every place you go, I will go. Every place you live, I will live. Your people will be my people. Your God will be my God.
17. And where you die, I will die. And there I will be buried. I ask the Lord to punish me terribly if I do not keep this promise: Only death will separate us.”