17. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. So may Yahweh do to me, and even more, unless death separates you and me!”
18. When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more.
19. So the two of them went until they came to Bethlehem. And when they came to Bethlehem, all of the town was stirred because of them. And they said, “Is this Naomi?”
20. And she said to them, “You should not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for Shaddai has caused me to be very bitter.
21. I went away full, but Yahweh brought me back empty-handed! Why call me Naomi when Yahweh has testified against me and Shaddai has brought calamity upon me?”
22. So 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.