Ruth 4:1

WEB

¹Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there. Behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by. Boaz said to him, “Come over here, friend, and sit down!” He came over, and sat down.

KJV

¹Then 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.

BSB

¹Meanwhile, Boaz went to the gate and sat down there. Soon the kinsman-redeemer ^[+] of whom he had spoken came along, and Boaz said, “Come over here, my friend, and sit down.” So he went over and sat down.

FBV

¹Boaz went to the town gate,^[+] and sat down there. The family redeemer that Boaz had mentioned happened to pass by, so Boaz said to him, “Come over here, friend, and sit down.” The man came over and sat down.

Extra References

Deuteronomy 25:7

⁷If 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 Israel. He will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.”

Ruth 3:12

¹²Now it is true that I am a near kinsman. However, there is a kinsman nearer than I.

Deuteronomy 16:18

¹⁸You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

Job 31:21

²¹if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate;

Job 29:7

⁷when I went out to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.

Deuteronomy 21:19

¹⁹then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place.

Amos 5:10-12

¹⁰They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly. ¹¹Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take taxes from him of wheat, you have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine. ¹²For I know how many are your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts.