Ruth 4:2

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, “Sit down here”; so they sat down.

Cross References

1 Kings 21:8

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

Exodus 21:8

If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed; he shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt faithlessly with her.

Proverbs 31:23

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

Lamentations 5:14

The old men have quit the city gate, the young men their music.

Acts 6:12

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

Deuteronomy 25:7

And if the man does not wish 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 perpetuate his brother's name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.’

Deuteronomy 29:10

“You stand this day all of you before the Lord your God; the heads of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel,

Deuteronomy 31:28

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