⁸ He said to them, ‘If you are willing for me to bury my dead, listen to me and ask Ephron son of Zohar on my behalf

¹⁶ But Ruth replied:

¹⁸ If they are indeed prophets and if the word of the Lord is with them, let them intercede with the Lord of Armies not to let the articles that remain in the Lord’s temple, in the palace of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem go to Babylon.”