²⁰ Then Hamor and Shechem, his son, went to the meeting-place of their town, and said to the men of the town,

¹ And Boaz went up to the public place of the town, and took his seat there: and the near relation of whom he had been talking came by; and Boaz, crying out to him by name, said, Come and be seated here. And he came and was seated.

¹⁶ These are the things which you are to do: Let every man say what is true to his neighbour; and let your judging give peace in your towns.

¹⁵ Be haters of evil and lovers of good, and let right be done in the public place: it may be that the Lord, the God of armies, will have mercy on the rest of Joseph.

¹² For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place.

¹⁰ They have hate for him who makes protest against evil in the public place, and he whose words are upright is disgusting to them.

²³ Her husband is a man of note in the public place, when he takes his seat among the responsible men of the land.

⁷ When I went out of my door to go up to the town, and took my seat in the public place,

² And Absalom got up early, morning after morning, and took his place at the side of the public meeting-place: and when any man had a cause which had to come to the king to be judged, then Absalom, crying out to him, said, What is your town? and he would say, Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.

⁵ Then you are to take the man or woman who has done the evil to the public place of your town, and they are to be stoned with stones till they are dead.

¹⁰ Now Ephron was seated among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite gave Abraham his answer in the hearing of the children of Heth, and of all those who came into his town, saying,

¹⁷ That I will certainly give you my blessing, and your seed will be increased like the stars of heaven and the sand by the seaside; your seed will take the land of those who are against them;