You shall appoint judges and officers in all your gates, which Jehovah your God gives you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, to the gate of his place.

And Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there; and behold, the kinsman redeemer of whom Boaz had spoken came by. So he said, Ho there, you! Turn aside and sit down here. So he came aside and sat down.

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

And all the people who were at the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. Jehovah make the woman who is coming into your house like Rachel and Leah, the two who built the house of Israel; and may you prosper in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem.

These are the things that you shall do. Every man speak the truth with his neighbor. Judge truth, justice and peace in your gates,