Ruth 1:17
Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me.
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Other Translations
King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)
Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.
KJV1611 – Modern English
Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.
King James Version 1611 (Original)
Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.
American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers
where thou diest,{H4191} will I die,{H4191} and there will I be buried:{H6912} Jehovah{H3068} do{H6213} so to me, and more{H3254} also, if aught but death{H4194} part{H6504} thee and me.
King James Version with Strong's Numbers
Where thou diest{H4191}{(H8799)}, will I die{H4191}{(H8799)}, and there will I be buried{H6912}{(H8735)}: the LORD{H3068} do{H6213}{(H8799)} so to me, and more{H3254}{(H8686)} also, if ought but death{H4194} part{H6504}{(H8686)} thee and me.
Coverdale Bible (1535)
Loke where thou diest, there wil dye, and euen there wil I also be buried. The LORDE do this and that vnto me, death onely shal departe vs.
Geneva Bible (1560)
Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried. the Lord do so to me and more also, if ought but death depart thee and me.
Bishops' Bible (1568)
Where thou diest, there will I die, and there wyl I be buried: The Lord do so to me and more also, if ought but death depart thee and me.
Authorized King James Version (1611)
Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, [if ought] but death part thee and me.
Webster's Bible (1833)
where you die, will I die, and there will I be buried: Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death part you and me."
Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)
Where thou diest I die, and there I am buried; thus doth Jehovah to me, and thus doth He add -- for death itself doth part between me and thee.'
American Standard Version (1901)
where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: Jehovah do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
American Standard Version (1901)
where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: Jehovah do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Bible in Basic English (1941)
Wherever death comes to you, death will come to me, and there will be my last resting-place; the Lord do so to me and more if we are parted by anything but death.
World English Bible (2000)
where you die, will I die, and there will I be buried. Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death part you and me."
NET Bible® (New English Translation)
Wherever you die, I will die– and there I will be buried. May the LORD punish me severely if I do not keep my promise! Only death will be able to separate me from you!”
Referenced Verses
- 1 Sam 3:17 : 17 Eli asked, "What was it that he said to you? Do not hide it from me. May God deal with you severely if you hide from me anything he told you."
- 1 Sam 25:22 : 22 May God punish David’s enemies severely if by morning I leave even one male of all who belong to him alive."
- 2 Sam 19:13 : 13 You are my brothers, my own flesh and blood. So why should you be the last to bring the king back?'
- 2 Kgs 6:31 : 31 He said, "May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today!"
- 1 Kgs 2:23 : 23 Then King Solomon took an oath by the LORD: 'May God punish me ever so severely if Adonijah has not made this request at the cost of his own life!
- 1 Kgs 19:2 : 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, 'May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I don’t make your life like the life of one of them.'
- 1 Kgs 20:10 : 10 Then Ben-Hadad sent another message: 'May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if the dust of Samaria will suffice for even a handful for each of the people who follow me.'
- 2 Sam 3:9 : 9 May God deal with Abner, be it ever so severely, if I do not carry out what the Lord swore to David.
- 2 Sam 3:35 : 35 Then the people came to urge David to eat something while it was still day. But David took an oath, saying, 'May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if I taste bread or anything else before the sun sets.'
- Acts 11:23 : 23 When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he was glad and encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with devoted hearts.
- Acts 20:24 : 24 'But I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish my course and the ministry I received from the Lord Jesus—to testify to the gospel of God’s grace.'
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- Ruth 1:13-164 verses88%
13 would you wait until they grew up? Would you remain unmarried for them? No, my daughters, it is more bitter for me than for you because the LORD’s hand has turned against me."
14 They lifted up their voices and wept again. Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.
15 Naomi said, "Look, your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Return with her."
16 But Ruth replied, "Do not urge me to leave you or to turn back from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you lodge, I will lodge. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.
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18 When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped trying to persuade her.
- Ruth 2:20-234 verses76%
20 Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, "May he be blessed by the LORD, who has not stopped showing his kindness to the living and the dead." She added, "That man is a close relative of ours; he is one of our kinsman-redeemers."
21 Then Ruth the Moabite said, "He even told me, 'Stay close to my harvesters until they have finished all my harvest.'"
22 Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, "It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his young women, so that you may not be harmed in another field."
23 So Ruth stayed close to the young women of Boaz to glean until the barley harvest and the wheat harvest were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.
- Ruth 2:7-82 verses73%
7 "She asked, 'Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves behind the harvesters.' She came and has been working steadily from morning till now, except for a short rest in the shelter."
8 So Boaz said to Ruth, "Listen, my daughter. Do not go to glean in another field, and do not leave this one. Stay close to my young women.
- Ruth 1:3-53 verses73%
3 Then Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died, and she was left with her two sons.
4 These sons married Moabite women. One was named Orpah, and the other was named Ruth. They lived there about ten years.
5 Then both Mahlon and Kilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband.
- Ruth 1:7-115 verses72%
7 She left the place where she had been living, along with her two daughters-in-law, and they began to travel on the road back to the land of Judah.
8 But Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go back, each of you, to your mother’s house. May the LORD deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.
9 May the LORD grant that each of you will find rest in the home of another husband." She kissed them goodbye, and they lifted up their voices and wept.
10 They said to her, "We will go back with you to your people."
11 But Naomi replied, "Return home, my daughters. Why would you come with me? Do I still have sons in my womb who could become your husbands?
- Ruth 3:9-102 verses72%
9 He asked, 'Who are you?' She answered, 'I am Ruth, your servant. Spread the corner of your garment over your servant, for you are a guardian-redeemer.'
10 He said, 'May you be blessed by the LORD, my daughter. You have shown great kindness now, even greater than before, by not pursuing younger men, whether rich or poor.'
- 2 Sam 15:20-212 verses71%
20 ‘You only came yesterday, so why should I make you wander with us today? I must go wherever I can. Return and take your brothers with you. May kindness and faithfulness be with you.’
21 But Ittai answered the king, 'As surely as the LORD lives and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king may be—whether for death or for life—there your servant will be.'
- Ruth 4:10-112 verses71%
10 I have also acquired Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon, as my wife in order to maintain the name of the deceased on his inheritance, so that his name will not disappear from among his family or from the gate of his hometown. You are witnesses today.
11 All the people who were at the gate and the elders said, 'We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who is entering your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you prosper in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem.'
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2 Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, "Let me go to the fields and gather leftover grain behind anyone in whose eyes I find favor." Naomi said to her, "Go ahead, my daughter."
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5 Then Boaz said, 'On the day you buy the field from Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of the deceased, in order to maintain the name of the dead on his inheritance.'
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5 And she said to her, 'I will do everything you say.'
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14 But show me the loyalty of the LORD as long as I live, so that I may not die.
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13 that you will spare the lives of my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and that you will save us from death."
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11 Boaz replied, "It has been fully reported to me all that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband—how you left your father and mother and your native land and came to a people you did not know before.
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44 Saul said, 'May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if you do not surely die, Jonathan.'
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32 If you come with us, we will share with you whatever good things the LORD gives to us."
- Ruth 3:12-132 verses69%
12 Now, it is true that I am a guardian-redeemer, but there is another redeemer who is more closely related than I am.
13 Stay here for the night. In the morning, if he wishes to redeem you, good—let him redeem you. But if he is not willing, as surely as the LORD lives, I will redeem you. Lie down here until morning.
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23 As for the promise we have made between the two of us, the LORD is our witness forever.
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7 'As for me, when I was coming from Paddan, Rachel died on me in the land of Canaan, along the way, still some distance from Ephrath. I buried her there on the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.'
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3 And I said to her, "You must stay with me for many days. You shall not engage in prostitution or belong to another man, and I will also remain loyal to you."
- Gen 24:37-393 verses68%
37 My master made me swear an oath, saying, 'You must not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I live.
38 Instead, you must go to my father's household and to my family to take a wife for my son.'
39 Then I said to my master, 'What if the woman does not come back with me?'
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30 But the boy’s mother said, 'As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.' So he got up and followed her.
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1 Then Naomi, her mother-in-law, said to her, 'My daughter, should I not seek a home for you where you will be well taken care of?'
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37 Your servant will merely cross the Jordan with the king for a short distance. Why should the king reward me with such a benefit?
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18 Then Naomi said, 'Wait, my daughter, until you find out how things will turn out, for the man will not rest until he has resolved the matter today.'
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2 Elijah said to Elisha, "Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me to Bethel." But Elisha replied, "As the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you." So they went to Bethel.
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4 Just then, Boaz arrived from Bethlehem and greeted the harvesters, "The LORD be with you!" They responded, "The LORD bless you!"
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20 On that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, the birds of the sky, and the creatures that move along the ground. I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land, so that all may lie down in safety.