Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Ruth 1:18
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When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped trying to persuade her.
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When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she left speaking unto her.
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When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.
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And when she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, she left off speaking unto her.
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Ruth 1
16 But Ruth replied: “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.
17 Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD punish me, and ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me.”
18 When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped trying to persuade her.
19 So Naomi and Ruth traveled until they came to Bethlehem. When they entered Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women of the town exclaimed, “Can this be Naomi?”
20 “Do not call me Naomi,” she replied. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has dealt quite bitterly with me.
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