Ruth 1:16

But Ruth said, “Don't force me to leave you, and don't stop me from following you. This is my strong promise to you. Wherever you go, I will go. Wherever you live, I will live there too. Your people will be my people and your God will be my God.

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In The King James Version

And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:

In Context

15Naomi said to her, “Ruth, Or-pah is going back to her people and to her gods. I want you to go with her.”

17Where you die, I will die there too. Where you are buried, I want to be buried in the same place. If I leave you before I die, then I ask the Lord to really punish me.”

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Cross References

Ruth 2:11Boaz said, “Yes, I know you are a stranger, but people have told me that you have been very good to your mother-in-law after her husband died. You left your country, and you left your mother and your father to come to this country where you do not know anyone.

Matthew Henry on Ruth 1:7-19

Naomi Returns to Canaan; Naomi and Her Daughters-in-Law; Ruth's Constancy to Naomi. ( b. c. 1312.) 6 Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the Lord had visited his people in giving them bread. 7 Wherefore she went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters in law with her; and they went on the way to return unto the land of Judah. 8 And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to… Read the whole commentary →

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