So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name and sealed them with his seal, and she sent the letters to the elders and the leaders who lived with Naboth in his city.
Ruth 4:2 - English Standard Version 2016 And he took ten men of the elders of the city and said, “Sit down here.” So they sat down. Matoleo zaidiKing 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, and she sent the letters to the elders and the leaders who lived with Naboth in his city.
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 broken faith with her.
Her husband is known in the gates when he sits among the elders of the land.
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,
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.’
“You are standing today, all of you, before the Lord your God: the heads of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel,
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.