²³ Her husband is respected in the gates, When he sits 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 spoke came by; to whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. He turned aside, and sat down.

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

⁴ A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, But a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

¹⁹ then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place;

¹¹ All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel: and do you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem:

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

⁷ Wisdom is too high for a fool: He doesn't open his mouth in the gate.