1. And [Ruth] said: "Do not beseech me" She (Ruth) said to her (Naomi) "do not sin toward me, and do not withhold your misfortunes away from me (to have me) leave and turn away from you. Regardless my intention is to convert, but it is not better (that my conversion be) at your hands and not at the hands of another." When Naomi heard [this], she began to present the laws of converts.
She (Naomi) said to her (Ruth), "My daughter, it isn't the way Israel to go to theaters and to places of amusement, but rather to synagogues and houses of study. And it is not the way of Israel to go more than two thousand cubits (from civiliation) on Shabbat." She (Ruth) said to her (Naomi) "Wherever you go I will go." (Ruth said to Naomi) "And it is not the way of Israel to live in a house that doesn't have a Mezuzah." She (Ruth) said to her (Naomi) "Wherever you lie I will lie."