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They lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth joined with her.
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She said, Behold, your sister-in-law is gone back to her people, and to her god: return you after your sister-in-law.
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Ruth said, "Don`t entreat me to leave you, and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God;
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where you die, will I die, and there will I be buried: Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death part you and me."
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When she saw that she was steadfastly minded to go with her, she left off speaking to her.
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So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. It happened, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and [the women] said, Is this Naomi?
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She said to them, "Don`t call me Naomi, call me Mara; for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
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I went out full, and Yahweh has brought me home again empty; why do you call me Naomi, seeing Yahweh has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?"
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So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.