“And Ruth said: 'Entreat me not to leave thee, and to return from following after thee; for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy G-d my G-d;” — read online, free, in the JPS 1917 translation.
Read in context: Ruth chapter 1 (full chapter) · JPS 1917 translation (public domain)
“Whither thou goest, I will go” — Ruth's vow, read on Shavuot when the giving of the Torah is celebrated.
Also read in the Bible (KJV): Ruth 1:16 → · Why do two versions of this verse exist?
Ruth's choice of Naomi's people and God mirrors Israel's choice of the Torah. Her words of loyalty — “thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God” — are among the most famous in the Tanakh.
This is the 1917 Jewish Publication Society translation — the classic public domain English rendering of the Hebrew Bible.
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