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.
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:
Note Intreat…: or, Be not against me
Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God.
Note The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).
And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave thee, and 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;
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Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Intreat me not
- or, Be not against me. to leave.
- 2 Kings 2:2–6; Luke 24:28, 29; Acts 21:13
- whither
- 2 Samuel 15:21; Matthew 8:19; John 13:37; Revelation 14:4
- thy people
- Ruth 2:11, 12; Psalm 45:10; Isaiah 14:1
- thy God
- Joshua 24:18; Daniel 2:47; Daniel 3:29; Daniel 4:37; Hosea 13:4; 2 Corinthians 6:16–18; 1 Thessalonians 1:9