Rut 1:16, 2:12, Ezr 9:1, Neh 13:23 | ESV | STEP | But Ruth said , Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go , and where you lodge I will lodge . Your people shall be my people , and your God my God .

Ruth 1:16

16 But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. ^aYour people shall be my people, and your God my God.

Ruth 2:12

12 ^bThe Lord repay you for what you have done, and a full reward be given you by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge!”

Ezra 9:1

Ezra Prays About Intermarriage

1 After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, “The people of Israel and the priests and the ^cLevites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands ^dwith their abominations, from the ^eCanaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

Nehemiah 13:23

23 In those days also I saw the Jews ^fwho had married women ^gof Ashdod, ^hAmmon, and ⁱMoab.