Job 29:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

When I went out to the gate of the city, when I took my seat in the square!

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  • Deut 16:18 : 18 Judges and officers you shall make for yourself in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, throughout your tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
  • Ruth 4:1-2 : 1 Then Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there; and behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by. Boaz said to him, 'Come over here, sit down.' So he turned aside and sat down. 2 And he took ten men from the elders of the city and said, 'Sit down here.' And they sat down.
  • Zech 8:16 : 16 These are the things that you shall do; Speak every man the truth to his neighbor; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:
  • Ruth 4:11 : 11 And all the people at the gate and the elders said, 'We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman coming into your house like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you act worthily in Ephrathah and be renowned in Bethlehem.
  • Job 31:21 : 21 If I have lifted my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate;
  • Deut 21:19 : 19 Then shall his father and his mother take hold of him, and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place;

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