surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand which is by the shore of the sea, and your seed shall inherit the cities of their enemies.

Now Ephron was sitting in the midst of the children of Heth, and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham and spoke in the hearing of the sons of Heth, and of all who entered the city, saying,

then shall you bring out that man, or that woman, and you shall stone them with stones, and they shall die.

And Boaz went up to the gate, and sat there. And behold, the relative passed by, of whom Boaz spoke. And Boaz said to him, Turn aside, [and] sit down here. And he turned aside and sat down.

When I went forth early in the city, and the seat was placed for me in the streets.

And her husband becomes a distinguished [person] in the gates, when he sits in council with the old inhabitants of the land.

They hated him that reproved in the gates, and abhorred holy speech.

For I know your many transgressions, and your sins are great, trampling on the just, taking bribes, and turning aside [the judgment of] the poor in the gates.

We have hated evil, and loved good; restore judgment in the gates, so that the Lord God Almighty may have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.

These are the things which you shall do: speak truth everyone with his neighbor; judge truth and peaceable judgment in your gates: