12. Go home, my daughters! I am too old to have a husband. Even if I were to say that there was hope for me and I could get married tonight, and then bore sons,
13. would you wait for them to grow up? Would you therefore hold off getting married? No, my daughters, it is more bitter for me than for you—for the hand of Adonai has gone out against me!”
14. Again they broke into loud weeping. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye. But Ruth clung to her.
15. She said, “Look, your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Return, along with your sister-in-law!”
16. Ruth replied, “Do not plead with me to abandon you, to turn back from following you. For where you go, I will go, and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God.
17. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Adonai deal with me, and worse, if anything but death comes between me and you!”
18. When she saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she no longer spoke to Ruth about it.
19. So the two of them went on until they arrived in Bethlehem. As soon as they arrived in Bethlehem the whole city was excited because of them, and the women asked, “Is this Naomi?”