16 Ruth answered,

"Please don’t tell me

to leave you

and return home!

I will go where you go,

I will live where you live;

your people will be my people,

your God will be my God.

17 I will die where you die

and be buried beside you.

May the Lord punish me

if we are ever separated,

even by death!"*1.17 even by death: Or "by anything but death."