Ruth 4:1-2

Meanwhile Boaz went up to the town gate and sat down there just as the guardian-redeemer he had mentioned came along. Boaz said, "Come over here, my friend and sit down." So he went over and sat down. Boaz took ten of the elders of the town and said, "Sit here," and they did so.

 

Meanwhile Boaz went up to the town gate

Genesis 19:1  The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.

Genesis 23:10  Ephron the Hittite was sitting among his people and he replied to Abraham in the hearing of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city.

Genesis 34:20  So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city to speak to the men of their city.

Genesis 34:24  All the men who went out of the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male was circumcised.

Psalm 69:12  Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of the drunkards.

Deuteronomy 25:7  However, if a man does not want to marry his brother's wife, she shall go to the elders at the town gate and say, "My husband's brother refuses to carry on his brother's name in Israel. He will not fulfill the duty of brother-in-law to me."

Joshua 20:4  "When they flee to one of these cities (cities of refuge), they are to stand in the entrance of the city gate and state their case before the elders of that city. Then the elders are to admit the fugitive into their city and provide a place to live among them."

Ruth 4:1a  Then the elders and all the people at the gate said, "We are witnesses."

Proverbs 31:23  Her husband is respected at the city gate, where he takes his seat among the elders of the land. 

and sat down there just as the guardian-redeemer 

Ruth 2:20  "The LORD bless him!" Naomi said to her daughter-in-law. "He has not stopped showing his kindness to the living and the dead." She added, That man is our close relative; he is one of our guardian-redeemers."

he had mentioned came along 

Ruth 3:12  "Although it is true that I am a guardian-redeemer of our family, there is another who is more closely related than I."

Boaz took ten of the elders of the town and said, "Sit down here," and they did so 

Exodus 17:5  The LORD answered Moses, "Go out in front of the people. Take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go."

Numbers 11:16  The LORD said to Moses: "Bring me seventy of Israel's elders who are known to you as leaders and officials among the people. Have them come to the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with you."

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