“Where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God. Where you die, I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.”

This has been a popular Bible reading at Jewish and Christian weddings for thousands of years. Marriage liturgies today still use variations on “until death do us part”.

It is a classic declaration of commitment for life – but what many don’t realise is that it was made between two women, Ruth and Naomi.

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