Ruth 4:2 - Tree of Life Version

² Then Boaz took ten of the town’s elders 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

So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, sealed them with his seal and sent the letters to the elders and the nobles who were living with Naboth in his city.

Exodus 21:8

If she does not please her master who has selected her for himself, then he is to allow her to be redeemed. He will have no power to sell her to a foreign people, seeing as he has dealt deceitfully toward her.

Proverbs 31:23

Her husband is respected at the city gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.

Lamentations 5:14

Elders are gone from the gate, young men from their music.

Acts 6:12

They also incited the people, the elders, and the Torah scholars; and they rushed at Stephen, seized him, and led him away to the Sanhedrin.

Deuteronomy 25:7

But if the man does not want to take his brother’s widow, his brother’s widow is to go to the elders at the gate and say, ‘My brother-in-law refuses to carry on his brother’s name in Israel—he is unwilling to perform a brother-in-law’s duty for me.’

Deuteronomy 29:10

your children, your wives, and the outsider within your camp (from your woodchopper to your water carrier).

Deuteronomy 31:28

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