16 But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For ^lwhere you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. 17 Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. ^mMay the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.”

2 And Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the Lord has sent me as far as Bethel.” But Elisha said, “As the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, ^pI will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.