When I went out to the gate of the city, when I prepared my seat in the square,
Proverbs 31:23 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) Her husband is known in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Her husband is known in the gates, When he sitteth among the elders of the land. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Her husband is known in the [city's] gates, when he sits among the elders of the land. [Prov. 12:4.] American Standard Version (1901) Her husband is known in the gates, When he sitteth among the elders of the land. Common English Bible Her husband is known in the city gates when he sits with the elders of the land. Catholic Public Domain Version Her husband is noble at the gates, when he sits among the senators of the land. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Her husband is honourable in the gates, when he sitteth among the senators of the land. |
When I went out to the gate of the city, when I prepared my seat in the square,
A good wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.
“You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives,
And Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there; and behold, the next of kin, of whom Boaz had spoken, came by. So Boaz said, “Turn aside, friend; sit down here”; and he turned aside and sat down.
Then all the people who were at the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman, who is coming into your house, like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you prosper in Ephrathah and be renowned in Bethlehem;
And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, “Sit down here”; so they sat down.