16 And Ruth proceeded to say: “Do not plead with me to abandon you, to turn back from accompanying you;* for where you go I shall go, and where you spend the night I shall spend the night.+ Your people will be my people,+ and your God my God.+

22 Thus Naʹo·mi made her return, Ruth the Moʹab·ite woman, her daughter-in-law, being with her when returning from the fields of Moʹab;+ and they came to Bethʹle·hem+ at the commencement of barley harvest.+