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14 And they lifted up their voices and cried again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.
15 And she said, "Look, your sister-in-law has returned to her people and to her gods. Return after your sister-in-law too."
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. Your people will be my people and your God will be my God.
17 Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. So may Yahweh do to me, ⌊and even more, unless⌋* death ⌊separates you and me⌋!"*
18 When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, ⌊she said no more⌋.*
19 So the two of them went until they came to Bethlehem. ⌊And when they came⌋* to Bethlehem, all of the town was stirred because of them. And they said, "Is this Naomi?"
20 And she said to them, "You should not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for Shaddai* has ⌊caused me to be very bitter⌋.*
21 I went away full, but Yahweh brought me back empty-handed! Why call me Naomi ⌊when Yahweh has testified against me⌋* and Shaddai* has brought calamity upon me?"
22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabite her daughter-in-law with her, returning from the countryside of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of the harvest of barley.