¹³ and put aside the clothes she was wearing when captured. After she has lived in your house and mourned her father and mother for a full month,^(A) then you may go to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife.

¹⁶ But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you^(A) or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go,^(B) and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people^(C) and your God my God.^(D)

¹⁷ Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely,^(A) if even death separates you and me.”^(B)