16 But Ruth said, "Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. *[ch. 2:11,12]Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. 17 Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. *1 Sam. 3:17;25:22;2 Sam. 19:13;1 Kgs. 2:23May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you."