So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name and sealed them with his seal. She sent the letters to the elders and nobles who lived with Naboth in his city.
Ruth 4:2 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Then Boaz took ten men of the town’s elders and said, ‘Sit here.’ And they sat down. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 And Boaz took ten men of the elders of the city and said, Sit down here. And they sat down. American Standard Version (1901) And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down. Common English Bible Then he took ten men from the town’s elders and said, “Sit down here.” And they sat down. Catholic Public Domain Version But Boaz, calling aside ten men among the elders of the city, said to them, "Sit down here." 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. |
So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name and sealed them with his seal. She sent the letters to the elders and nobles who lived with Naboth in his city.
If she is displeasing to her master, who chose her for himself, then he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners because he has acted treacherously towards her.
Her husband is known at the city gates, where he sits among the elders of the land.
They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes; so they came, seized him, and took him to the Sanhedrin.
But if the man doesn’t want to marry his sister-in-law, she is to go to the elders at the city gate and say, “My brother-in-law refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He isn’t willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.”
‘All of you are standing today before the Lord your God #– #your leaders, tribes, elders, officials, all the men of Israel,
Assemble all your tribal elders and officers before me so that I may speak these words directly to them and call heaven and earth as witnesses against them.