12Go back, my daughters, and go on your way; I am so old now that I may not have another husband. If I said, I have hopes, if I had a husband tonight, and might have sons,
13Would you keep yourselves till they were old enough? would you keep from having husbands for them? No, my daughters; but I am very sad for you that the hand of the Lord is against me.
14Then again they were weeping; and Orpah gave her mother-in-law a kiss, but Ruth would not be parted from her.
15And Naomi said, See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods: go back after your sister-in-law.
16But 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.
17Wherever 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.
18And when she saw that Ruth was strong in her purpose to go with her she said no more.