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When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she left speaking unto her. So they two went until they came to Bethlehem ...

(Authorized Version: 1611)

It is a lesson in much more than mere word-craft to consider each of these in turn. In one, the lovely simplicity of 'that I forsake thee, and go away'; in another, 'that Ruth had deemed with steadfast soul to go with her'; in another, 'She spake no more to her thereof. So they went on both together'; and then, the sovran 'Intreat me not to leave thee', and 'the Lord do so to me and more also'; and last, in the Douai translation, 'if aught but death part me and thee'.

Here also is but a fragment from the second chapter of Genesis:

And the Lord God brought forthe of the erthe eche tree fayre in sight, and swete to ete.

(Wycliffe)

And the Lorde God caused to sprynge out of the earth all maner trees, pleasant to loke upon, and good to eate.

(Miles Coverdale: 1536)

For out of the ground made the Lorde God to grow euery tree pleasant to the sight and good for meate.