World English Bible
Ruth 1:17
“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.”
Verse in context — Ruth 1
She said, "Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people, and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law.
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;
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.
When she saw that she was steadfastly minded to go with her, she left off speaking to her.
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?
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