¹⁶ But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. ^(A)Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. ¹⁷ Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. ^(B)May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.”