²³ Her husband is known in the gates, When he sitteth among the elders of the land.

¹ Now 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.

¹⁸ Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, according to thy tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

⁴ A worthy woman is the crown of her husband; But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

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;

¹¹ And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. Jehovah make the woman that is come into thy house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem:

⁷ When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street,

⁷ Wisdom is too high for a fool: He openeth not his mouth in the gate.