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.”

21 But Ittai answered the king, “As the Lord lives, and as my lord the king lives, ^hwherever my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, there also will your servant be.”