Ruth 4:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ No sooner had Boaz gone up to the gate and sat down there than the next-of-kin of whom Boaz had spoken came passing by. So Boaz said, “Come over; sit down here.” And he went over and sat down.

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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

The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.

Genesis 23:10

Now Ephron was sitting among the Hittites, and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the Hittites, of all who went in at the gate of his city,

Genesis 34:20

So Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city, saying,

2 Samuel 15:2

Absalom used to rise early and stand beside the road into the gate, and when anyone brought a suit before the king for judgment, Absalom would call out and say, “From what city are you?” When the person said, “Your servant is of such and such a tribe in Israel,”

2 Chronicles 18:9

Now the king of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah were sitting on their thrones, arrayed in their robes, and they were sitting at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets were prophesying before them.

Job 29:7

When I went out to the gate of the city, when I took my seat in the square,

Job 31:21

if I have raised my hand against the orphan because I saw I had supporters at the gate;

Psalm 69:12

I am the subject of gossip for those who sit in the gate, and the drunkards make songs about me.

Proverbs 31:23

Her husband is known in the city gates, taking his seat among the elders of the land.

Isaiah 55:1

Hear, everyone who thirsts; come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Jeremiah 32:10

I signed the deed, sealed it, got witnesses, and weighed the silver on scales.

Amos 5:15

Hate evil and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

Zechariah 2:6

Up, up! Flee from the land of the north, says the Lord, for I have spread you abroad like the four winds of heaven, says the Lord.

Deuteronomy 16:18

“You shall appoint judges and officials throughout your tribes, in all your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, and they shall render just decisions for the people.

Deuteronomy 17:5

then you shall bring out to your gates that man or that woman who has committed this crime, and you shall stone the man or woman to death.

Deuteronomy 21:19

then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his town at the gate of that place.

Deuteronomy 25:7

But if the man has no desire to marry his brother’s widow, then his brother’s widow shall go up to the elders at the gate and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to perpetuate his brother’s name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.’

Joshua 20:4

The slayer shall flee to one of these cities and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city and explain the case to the elders of that city; then the fugitive shall be taken into the city and given a place and shall remain with them.

Ruth 3:12

But now, though it is true that I am a near kinsman, there is another kinsman more closely related than I.

Ruth 3:18

She replied, “Wait, my daughter, until you learn how the matter turns out, for the man will not rest but will settle the matter today.”