Ruth 4:2 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision Now this in former times was the manner in Israel between kinsmen, that if at any time one yielded his right to another: that the grant might be sure, the man put off his shoe, and gave it to his neighhour; this was a testimony of cession of right in Israel. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And Boaz took ten men of the elders of the city and said, Sit down here. And they sat down. American Standard Version (1901) And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down. Common English Bible Then he took ten men from the town’s elders and said, “Sit down here.” And they sat down. Catholic Public Domain Version But Boaz, calling aside ten men among the elders of the city, said to them, "Sit down here." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Booz, taking ten men of the ancients of the city, said to them: Sit ye down here. |
3 And bringing two men, sons of the devil, they made them sit against him: and they, like men of the devil, bore witness against him before the people, saying: Naboth hath blasphemed God and the king: wherefore they brought him forth without the city, and stoned him to death.
0 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: the woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
2 But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry against us.
And he gave him no inheritance in it; no, not the pace of a foot: but he promised to give it him in possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.
2 Thou shalt cut off her hand, neither shalt thou be moved with any pity in her regard.
Because I will invoke the name of the Lord: give ye magnificence to our God.