Ruth 4:1-2

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

The Marriage of Boaz and Ruth

4 No sooner had Boaz gone up to the gate and sat down there than the next-of-kin,^[a] of whom Boaz had spoken, came passing by. So Boaz said, ‘Come over, friend; sit down here.’ And he went over and sat down. ² Then Boaz took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, ‘Sit down here’; so they sat down.