Ruth 1:16-17

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16} But Ruth replied:

Do not persuade me to leave you
or go back and not follow you.
For wherever you go, I will go,
and wherever you live, I will live;
your people will be my people,
and your God will be my God.

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17}

Where you die, I will die,
and there I will be buried.
May Yahweh punish me,^(a)^(A)
and do so severely,
if anything but death separates you and me.

Footnotes:

a. Ruth 1:17: A solemn oath formula; 1Sm 3:17; 2Sm 3:9,35; 1Kg 2:23; 2Kg 6:31

Cross references:

A. Ruth 1:17: 1 Samuel 3:17; 2 Samuel 3:9; 2 Samuel 3:35; 1 Kings 2:23; 2 Kings 6:31