^{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.