Ruth 4:11

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Le'ah, which two built the house of Yisra'el: and do you worthily in Efratah, and be famous in Beit-Lechem:

Cross References

Genesis 23:10

Now `Efron was sitting in the middle of the children of Chet. `Efron the Chittite answered Avraham in the hearing of the children of Chet, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,

Genesis 24:60

They blessed Rivka, and said to her, *Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your seed possess the gate of those who hate them.*

Genesis 29:16

Lavan had two daughters. The name of the elder was Le'ah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

Genesis 29:25

It happened in the morning that, behold, it was Le'ah. He said to Lavan, *What is this you have done to me? Didn't I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?*

Genesis 29:32

Le'ah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Re'uven. For she said, *Because the LORD has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me.*

Genesis 35:23

The sons of Le'ah: Re'uven (Ya`akov's firstborn), Shim`on, Levi, Yehudah, Yissakhar, and Zevulun.

Genesis 35:24

The sons of Rachel: Yosef and Binyamin.

1 Kings 21:8

So she wrote letters in Ach'av's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, [and] who lived with Navot.

1 Chronicles 2:51

Salma the father of Beit-Lechem, Charef the father of Beit-Gader.

Psalm 132:6

Behold, we heard of it in Efratah. We found it in the field of Ya`ar:

Proverbs 14:1

Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

Proverbs 31:23

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

Jeremiah 32:10

I subscribed the deed, and sealed it, and called witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.

Micah 5:2

But you, Beit-Lechem Efratah, being small among the clans of Yehudah, out of you one will come forth to me that is to be ruler in Yisra'el; whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.

Matthew 2:6

'You Beit-Lechem, land of Yehudah, are in no way least among the princes of Yehudah: for out of you shall come forth a governor, who shall shepherd my people, Yisra'el.'*

Deuteronomy 25:7

If the man doesn't want to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Yisra'el; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.

Deuteronomy 25:9

then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.

Ruth 1:2

The name of the man was Elimelekh, and the name of his wife Na`omi 1, and the name of his two sons Machlon and Kilyon, Efratites of Beit-Lechem-Yehudah. They came into the country of Mo'av, and continued there.