Ruth 4:11

New American Bible - revised edition

All those at the gate, including the elders, said, “We do. May the Lord make this woman come into your house like Rachel and Leah, who between them built up the house of Israel. Prosper in Ephrathah! Bestow a name in Bethlehem!

Cross References

Genesis 23:10

Now Ephron was sitting with the Hittites. So Ephron the Hittite replied to Abraham in the hearing of the Hittites, all who entered the gate of his city:

Genesis 24:60

They blessed Rebekah and said: “Sister, may you grow into thousands of myriads; And may your descendants gain possession of the gates of their enemies!”

Genesis 29:16

Now Laban had two daughters; the older was called Leah, the younger Rachel.

Genesis 29:25

In the morning, there was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban: “How could you do this to me! Was it not for Rachel that I served you? Why did you deceive me?”

Genesis 29:32

Leah conceived and bore a son, and she named him Reuben; for she said, “It means, ‘The Lord saw my misery; surely now my husband will love me.’”

Genesis 35:23

The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun;

Genesis 35:24

the sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin;

1 Kings 21:8

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

1 Chronicles 2:51

Salma, the father of Bethlehem, and Hareph, the father of Bethgader.

Psalm 132:6

“We have heard of it in Ephrathah; we have found it in the fields of Jaar.

Proverbs 14:1

Wisdom builds her house, but Folly tears hers down with her own hands.

Proverbs 31:23

Her husband is prominent at the city gates as he sits with the elders of the land.

Jeremiah 32:10

When I had written and sealed the deed, called witnesses and weighed out the silver on the scales,

Micah 5:2

Therefore the Lord will give them up, until the time when she who is to give birth has borne, Then the rest of his kindred shall return to the children of Israel.

Matthew 2:6

‘And you, Bethlehem, land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; since from you shall come a ruler, who is to shepherd my people Israel.’”

Deuteronomy 25:7

But if a man does not want to marry his brother’s wife, she shall go up to the elders at the gate and say, “My brother-in-law refuses to perpetuate his brother’s name in Israel and does not intend to perform his duty toward me.”

Deuteronomy 25:9

his sister-in-law, in the presence of the elders, shall go up to him and strip his sandal from his foot and spit in his face, declaring, “This is how one should be treated who will not build up his brother’s family!”

Ruth 1:2

The man was named Elimelech, his wife Naomi, and his sons Mahlon and Chilion; they were Ephrathites from Bethlehem of Judah. Some time after their arrival on the plateau of Moab,