When I went out to the gate of the city, when I prepared my seat in the square,
These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace;
Now Boaz had gone up to the gate and sat down there. And behold, the redeemer, of whom Boaz had spoken, came by. So Boaz said, “Turn aside, friend; sit down here.” And he turned aside and sat down. And he took ten men of the elders of the city and said, “Sit down here.” So they sat down.
Then all the people who were at the gate and the elders said, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman, who is coming into your house, like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you act worthily in Ephrathah and be renowned in Bethlehem,
“You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,
then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives,
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