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## Ruth 1:20-21 in Context (Verses 17–22 KJV)
 
 [17 ](/kjv/ruth/1/17) 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.
 
 [18 ](/kjv/ruth/1/18) When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she left speaking unto her.*
 
 [19 ](/kjv/ruth/1/19) ¶ So they two went until they came to Beth-lehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Beth-lehem, that all the city was moved about them, and they said, *Is* this Naomi?
 
 [20 ](/kjv/ruth/1/20) And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.**
 
 [21 ](/kjv/ruth/1/21) I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why *then* call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?
 
 [22 ](/kjv/ruth/1/22) So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Beth-lehem in the beginning of barley harvest.
 
[Judges 21](/kjv/judges/21) [Ruth 2](/kjv/ruth/2)

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