18When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.
18When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.
15 "Look," said Naomi, "your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Go back with her."
16 But Ruth replied, "Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.
17 Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me."
18 When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.
19 So the two women went on until they came to Bethlehem. When they arrived in Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women exclaimed, "Can this be Naomi?"
20 "Don't call me Naomi, " she told them. "Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life very bitter.
1:18When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she left speaking unto her.
1:18Then Noemi, seeing that Ruth was steadfastly determined to go with her, would not be against it, nor persuade her any more to return to her friends:
1:18And when she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, she left off speaking unto her.
1:18And when she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, she left off speaking to her.
1:18And when she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, she left speaking unto her.
1:18When she saw that she was steadfastly resolved to go with her, then she left speaking to her.
1:18When she saw that she was steadfastly minded to go with her, she left off speaking to her.
1:18And she seeth that she is strengthening herself to go with her, and she ceaseth to speak unto her;
1:18When she saw that she was steadfastly minded to go with her, then she left speaking to her.