^{15 Ref} And Naomi said, See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods: go back after your sister-in-law.

^{16 Ref} But Ruth said, Give up requesting me to go away from you, or to go back without you: for where you go I will go; and where you take your rest I will take my rest; your people will be my people, and your God my God.

^{17 Ref} Wherever death comes to you, death will come to me, and there will be my last resting-place; the Lord do so to me and more if we are parted by anything but death.