¹⁷ Wherever you die, I will die and be buried there. May the Lord do this to me and even worse if anything other than death separates me from you.” ¹⁸ When she saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more.

¹⁹ Life in Bethlehem. So they both traveled on until they came to Bethlehem. When they arrived in Bethlehem, there was a commotion among all of the inhabitants of the city on account of them. The women exclaimed, “Is this Naomi?”