A virtuous woman {is} a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed {is} as rottenness in his bones.

Then 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.

Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.

When I went out to the gate through the city, {when} I prepared my seat in the street!

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;

Wisdom {is} too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.

And all the people that {were} in the gate, and the elders, said, {We are} witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem: {do thou...: or, get thee riches, or, power} {be famous: Heb. proclaim thy name}

And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down.

And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,

And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.