“16…For whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:
17Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.”
Ruth. 1:16-17
There is passion and commitment, and possibly intimacy too. It is love in a contemporary sense, even if not an erotic one, between these two female biblical figures.