Ruth 4:2 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

² 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² 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

² And Boaz took ten men of the elders of the city and said, Sit down here. And they sat down.

American Standard Version (1901)

² And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down.

Common English Bible

² Then he took ten men from the town’s elders and said, “Sit down here.” And they sat down.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² 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

² And Booz, taking ten men of the ancients of the city, said to them: Sit ye down here.

Ruth 4:2 Cross References

1 Kings 21:8

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.

Exodus 21:8

1 If he do not these three things, she shall go out free without money.

Proverbs 31:23

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

Lamentations 5:14

2 But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry against us.

Acts 6:12

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.

Deuteronomy 25:7

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

Deuteronomy 29:10

5 But with all that are present and that are absent.

Deuteronomy 31:28

Because I will invoke the name of the Lord: give ye magnificence to our God.