en-x-demo2_rut_text_reg/01/16.txt

\v 16 But Ruth said, "Do not urge me to leave you, to turn back from following you, for where you go, I will go; where you stay, I will stay; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God. \v 17 Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Yahweh punish me, and even more, if anything but death ever separates us." \v 18 When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped arguing with her.