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.
Ruth 4:2 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) He took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit you down here. 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 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.
If she doesn't please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, seeing he has dealt deceitfully with her.
Her husband is respected in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.
The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.
They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, and brought him in to the council,
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.
You stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Yisra'el,
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.