Ruth 4:2 - Revised Version 1885

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

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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

So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, and that dwelt with Naboth.

Exodus 21:8

If she please not her master, who hath espoused her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange people he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.

Proverbs 31:23

Her husband is known in the gates, When he sitteth among the elders of the land.

Lamentations 5:14

The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.

Acts 6:12

And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and seized him, and brought him into the council,

Deuteronomy 25:7

And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of an husband's brother unto me.

Deuteronomy 29:10

Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,

Deuteronomy 31:28

Assemble unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them.