Ruth 1:17
ContextNETBible | 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! 1 Only death will be able to separate me from you!” 2 |
NIV © biblegateway Rut 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 anything but death separates you and me." |
NASB © biblegateway Rut 1:17 |
"Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. Thus may the LORD do to me, and worse, if anything but death parts you and me." |
NLT © biblegateway Rut 1:17 |
I will die where you die and will be buried there. May the LORD punish me severely if I allow anything but death to separate us!" |
MSG © biblegateway Rut 1:17 |
where you die, I'll die, and that's where I'll be buried, so help me GOD--not even death itself is going to come between us!" |
BBE © SABDAweb Rut 1:17 |
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. |
NRSV © bibleoremus Rut 1:17 |
Where you die, I will die—there will I be buried. May the LORD do thus and so to me, and more as well, if even death parts me from you!" |
NKJV © biblegateway Rut 1:17 |
Where you die, I will die, And there will I be buried. The LORD do so to me, and more also, If anything but death parts you and me." |
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NETBible | 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! 1 Only death will be able to separate me from you!” 2 |
NET Notes |
1 tn Heb “Thus may the 2 tn Heb “certainly death will separate me and you.” Ruth’s vow has been interpreted two ways: (1) Not even death will separate her from Naomi – because they will be buried next to one another (e.g., NRSV, NCV; see E. F. Campbell, Ruth [AB], 74-75). However, for the statement to mean, “Not even death will separate me and you,” it would probably need to be introduced by אִם (’im, “if”) or negated by לֹא (lo’, “not”; see F. W. Bush, Ruth, Esther [WBC], 83). (2) Nothing except death will separate her from Naomi (e.g., KJV, ASV, RSV, NASB, NIV, TEV, NJPS, REB, NLT, GW; see Bush, 83). The particle כִּי introduces the content of the vow, which – if violated – would bring about the curse uttered in the preceding oath (BDB 472 s.v. כִּי 1.c; e.g., Gen 42:16; Num 14:22; 1 Sam 20:3; 26:16; 29:6; 2 Sam 3:35; 1 Kgs 2:23; Isa 49:18). Some suggest that כּי is functioning as an asseverative (“indeed, certainly”) to express what the speaker is determined will happen (Bush, 83; see 1 Sam 14:44; 2 Sam 3:9; 1 Kgs 2:23; 19:2). Here כִּי probably functions in a conditional sense: “if” or “if…except, unless” (BDB 473 s.v. כִּי2.b). So her vow may essentially mean “if anything except death should separate me from you!” The most likely view is (2): Ruth is swearing that death alone will separate her from Naomi. 2 sn Ruth’s devotion to Naomi is especially apparent here. Instead of receiving a sure blessing and going home (see v. 8), Ruth instead takes on a serious responsibility and subjects herself to potential divine punishment. Death, a power beyond Ruth’s control, will separate the two women, but until that time Ruth will stay by Naomi’s side and she will even be buried in the same place as Naomi. |