^{14 Ref} They lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth joined with her.

^{15 Ref} She said, Behold, your sister-in-law is gone back to her people, and to her god: return you after your sister-in-law.

^{16 Ref} Ruth said, "Don't entreat me to leave you, and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God;

^{17 Ref} where you die, will I die, and there will I be buried: Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death part you and me."

^{18 Ref} When she saw that she was steadfastly minded to go with her, she left off speaking to her.

^{19 Ref} So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. It happened, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and [the women] said, Is this Naomi?

^{20 Ref} She said to them, "Don't call me Naomi, call me Mara; for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

^{21 Ref} I went out full, and Yahweh has brought me home again empty; why do you call me Naomi, seeing Yahweh has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?"

^{22 Ref} So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.