The Lord grant you that ye may find rest, each
of you in this house of her husband." Then she kissed them.
And they lifted up their voice and wept; and they said unto her,
"Surely, we will return with thee unto thy people."
And Naomi said, "Turn again, my daughters; why will ye go with me?
Turn again, my daughters, go your way."
And they lifted up their voice and wept again. And Orpah kissed her
mother-in-law; but Ruth clave unto her.
And she said, "Behold, thy sister-in-law is gone back unto her people
and unto her gods! Return thou after thy sister-in-law."
And Ruth said, "Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from
following after thee. For whither thou goest I will go, and where thou
lodgest I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my
God: where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried. The Lord
do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me."
When Naomi saw that Ruth was steadfastly minded to go with her, then
she left speaking unto her. So they two went until they came to
Bethlehem.
And it came to pass, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the
city was moved about them, and they said, "Is this Naomi?"
And she said unto them, "Call me not Naomi [pleasant], call me Mara
[bitter]; for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. I went
out full, and the Lord hath brought me home again empty. Why then call
ye me Naomi, seeing that the Lord hath testified against me, and the
Almighty hath afflicted me?"
So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with
her, which returned out of the country of Moab; and they came to
Bethlehem in the beginning of barley-harvest.
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