16. But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you, or to go back from following after you. For wherever you go, I go; and wherever you stop over, I stop over. Your people is my people, and your Elohim is my Elohim.
17. “Where you die, I die, and there I shall be buried. יהוה do so to me, and more also – for death itself parts you and me.”
18. And when she saw that she was strengthening herself to go with her, she ceased to speak to her.
19. And both of them went until they came to Bĕyth Leḥem. And it came to be, when they had come to Bĕyth Leḥem, that all the city was moved because of them, and they said, “Is this Na‛omi?”
20. And she said to them, “Do not call me Na‛omi, call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
21. “I went out filled, and יהוה has brought me back empty. Why do you call me Na‛omi, since יהוה has witnessed against me, and the Almighty has done evil to me?”
22. Thus Na‛omi returned, and Ruth the Mo’aḇitess her daughter-in-law with her, who returned from the fields of Mo’aḇ, and they came to Bĕyth Leḥem at the beginning of barley harvest.