Ruth 1:16

But Ruth answered, “Do not urge me to leave you or to go back. I will go where you go, and I will stay wherever you stay. Your people will be my people, and your God 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

15“Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law is going back to her own people and to her own gods. Go along with her!”

17I will die where you die, and be buried there. May the Lord bring a curse upon me, if anything but death separate you and me.”

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Cross References

Joshua 24:18The Lord drove out all the nations before us, all the Amorites who lived in the land. So we will serve the Lord, for he is our God.”

Ruth 2:11Boaz replied, “I have heard what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, and how you left your father and mother and your native land to come to a people that you did not know before.

Psalms 45:10Listen, daughter, and see; and incline your ear: forget your folk and your father’s house.

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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