Ruth 4:1 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ He answered: I yield up my right of next akin: for I must not cut off the posterity of my own family. Do thou make use of my privilege, which I profess I do willingly forego.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ THEN BOAZ went up to the city's gate and sat down there, and behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz had spoken came by. He said to him, Ho! Turn aside and sit down here. So he turned aside and sat down.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.

Common English Bible

¹ Meanwhile, Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there. Just then, the redeemer about whom Boaz had spoken was passing by. He said, “Sir, come over here and sit down.” So he turned aside and sat down.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Then Boaz went up to the gate, and he sat there. And when he had seen the kinsman passing by, whom he had previously discussed, he spoke to him, calling him by his name, "Pause for a little while, and sit down here." He turned aside and sat down.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ Then Booz went up to the gate, and sat there. And when he had seen the kinsman going by, of whom he had spoken before, he said to him, calling him by his name: Turn aside for a little while, and sit down here. He turned aside, and sat down.

Ruth 4:1 Cross References

Genesis 19:1

And the two angels came to Sodom ii in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of the city. And seeing them, he rose up and went to meet them: and worshipped prostrate to the ground,

Genesis 23:10

0 Now Ephron dwelt in the midst of the children of Heth. And Ephron made answer to Abraham in the hearing of all that went in at the gate of the city, saying:

Genesis 34:20

1 These men are peaceable and willing to dwell with us: let them trade in the land, and till it, which being large and wide wanteth men to till it: we shall take their daughters for wives, and we will give them ours.

2 Samuel 15:2

And after forty years, Absalom said to king David: Let me go, and pay my vows which I have vowed to the Lord in Hebron.

2 Chronicles 18:9

4 So he came to the king: and the king said to him: Micheas, shall we go to Ramoth Galaad to fight, or forbear? And he answered him: Go up, for all shall succeed prosperously, and the enemies shall be delivered into your hands.

Job 29:7

2 Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless that had no helper.

Job 31:21

6 If I beheld the sun when it shined, and the moon going in brightness:

Psalm 69:12

9 Thou knowest my reproach, and my confusion, and my shame.

Proverbs 31:23

0 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: the woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.

Isaiah 55:1

For as the heavens are exalted above the earth, so are my ways exalted above your ways, and my thoughts above your thoughts.

Jeremiah 32:10

8 Thou shewest mercy unto thousands, and returnest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: O most mighty, great, and powerful, the Lord of hosts is thy name.

Amos 5:15

3 Take away from me the tumult of thy songs: and I will not hear the canticles of thy harp.

Zechariah 2:6

And the Lord shewed me Jesus the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord: and Satan stood on his right hand to be his adversary.

Deuteronomy 16:18

Thou shalt not sacrifice to the Lord thy God a sheep, or an ox, wherein there is blemish, or any fault: for that is an abomination to the Lord thy God.

Deuteronomy 17:5

0 And thou shalt do whatsoever they shall say, that preside in the place, which the Lord shall choose, and what they shall teach thee,

Deuteronomy 21:19

Thou shalt not pass by if thou seest thy brother's ox, or his sheep go astray: but thou shalt bring them back to thy brother.

Deuteronomy 25:7

2 Thou shalt cut off her hand, neither shalt thou be moved with any pity in her regard.

Joshua 20:4

These cities were appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the strangers, that dwelt among them: that whosoever had killed a person unawares might flee to them, and not die by the hand of the kinsman, coveting to revenge the blood that was shed, until he should stand before the people to lay open his cause.

Ruth 3:12

7 And she said: Behold he hath given me six measures of barley: for he said: I will not have thee return empty to thy mother in law.

Ruth 3:18

And Booz said to him: When thou shalt buy the field at the woman's hand, thou must take also Ruth the Moabitess, who was the wife of the deceased: to raise up the name of thy kinsman in his inheritance.