Ruth 4:2

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Cross References

Proverbs 31:23

Her husband is honourable in the gates, when he sitteth among the senators of the land.

1 Kings 21:8

So she wrote letters in Achab's name, and sealed them with his ring, and sent them to the ancients, and the chief men that were in his city, and that dwelt with Naboth.

Acts 6:12

And they stirred up the people, and the ancients, and the scribes; and running together, they took him, and brought him to the council.

Lamentations 5:14

The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.

Exodus 21:8

If she displease the eyes of her master to whom she was delivered, he shall let her go: but he shall have no power to sell her to a foreign nation, if he despise her.

Deuteronomy 31:28

Gather unto me all the ancients of your tribes, and your doctors, and I will speak these words in their hearing: and will call heaven and earth to witness against them.

Deuteronomy 29:10

You all stand this day before the Lord your God, your princes, and tribes, and ancients, and doctors, all the people of Israel:

Deuteronomy 25:7

But if he will not take his brother's wife, who by law belongeth to him, the woman shall go to the gate of the city, and call upon the ancients, and say: My husband's brother refuseth to raise up his brother's name in Israel: and will not take me to wife.