John 4:37Open English Bible (US)

Ruth 1:1

In the time when the judges ruled, there was once a famine in the land. A man from Bethlehem in Judah took his wife and two sons to live in the territory of Moab.

Ruth 1:4

who married Moabite women named Orpah and Ruth. After they had lived there about ten years,

Ruth 1:14

Then they again wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth stayed with her.

Ruth 1:16

But Ruth answered, “Do not urge me to leave you or to go back. I will go where you go, and I will stay wherever you stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God;

Ruth 1:17

I will die where you die, and be buried there. May the Lord bring a curse upon me, if anything but death separate you and me.”