Ruth 1:17-19

The Voice

¹⁷    Wherever you die, I will also die
        and be buried there near you.
    May the Eternal One punish me—
        and even more so—
        if anything besides death comes between us.

¹⁸When Naomi heard this and saw Ruth’s resolve, she stopped trying to talk her out of returning to Judah. ¹⁹The two women went on together to Bethlehem.

News of their arrival spread throughout Bethlehem. In fact, the whole community was humming with the report, with the women exclaiming, “Could it really be the same Naomi who left us so long ago?”

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