Ruth 4:1
Ruth chapter 4 · verse 1 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.
Context
v.1This passage
v.2And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 21:19
then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
- Ruth 3:12
And now it is true that I am a near kinsman; howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I.
- Deuteronomy 25:7
And if the man like not to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband’s brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother unto me.
- Amos 5:15
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish justice in the gate: it may be that Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
- Amos 5:10
They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
- Job 29:7
When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street,