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Where is “Where you go I will go” in the Bible?
“Where you go I will go” is Ruth 1:16. Ruth says it to Naomi, her mother-in-law, on the road back to Bethlehem.
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In the Bible
It is Ruth 1:16.
Yes, it is in the Bible.
Ruth says it to Naomi, her mother-in-law, on the road back to Bethlehem.
The verse
But Ruth said, “Do not press me to abandon you, to turn back and stop following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you spend the night, I will spend the night. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Yahweh deal harshly with me, and worse still, if anything but death comes between you and me.”
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What it means there
Both women are widows, and Naomi has told Ruth to go home to Moab. Ruth refuses and takes Naomi’s people and Naomi’s God as her own. The words are often read at weddings, but they were first a promise to a mother-in-law.
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Where is “Where you go I will go” in the Bible?
“Where you go I will go” is Ruth 1:16. English Bibles word this verse in different ways. The Lumin Translation, a modern English Bible, is quoted here. Ruth says it to Naomi, her mother-in-law, on the road back to Bethlehem.
Is “Where you go I will go” in the Bible?
Yes. It is Ruth 1:16. In the Lumin Translation, Ruth 1:16-17 reads: “But Ruth said, “Do not press me to abandon you, to turn back and stop following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you spend the night, I will spend the night. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.…”
Who said “Where you go I will go”?
Ruth says it to Naomi, her mother-in-law, on the road back to Bethlehem.
What does “Where you go I will go” mean in the Bible?
Both women are widows, and Naomi has told Ruth to go home to Moab. Ruth refuses and takes Naomi’s people and Naomi’s God as her own. The words are often read at weddings, but they were first a promise to a mother-in-law.
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