Ruth 4:2 - The Scriptures 1998

² And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, “Sit down here.” So 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."

Ruth 4:2 Cross References

1 Kings 21:8

Then she wrote letters in Aḥ

Exodus 21:8

“If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who has engaged her to himself, then he shall let her be ransomed. He shall have no authority to sell her to a foreign people, because of him deceiving her.

Proverbs 31:23

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

Lamentations 5:14

Elders have ceased from the gate, Young men from their song.

Acts 6:12

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

Deuteronomy 25:7

“But if the man does not desire to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s wife go up to the gate to the elders, and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to raise up a name to his brother in Yisra’ĕ

Deuteronomy 29:10

“All of you are standing today before יהוה  your Elohim: your leaders, your tribes, your elders and your officers, all the men of Yisra’ĕ

Deuteronomy 31:28

“Assemble unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, so that I speak these words in their hearing and call the heavens and the earth to witness against them.