Ruth 4:2

Then Boaz took ten men from the elders of the city and said, “Sit down here.” And they sat down.

1 Kings 21:8

So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name and sealed them with his seal, and sent them to the elders and nobles who lived with Naboth in his city.

Proverbs 31:23

Her husband is known in the [city’s] gates,
When he sits among the elders of the land.

Furthermore, you shall select from all the people competent men who [reverently] fear God, men of truth, those who hate dishonest gain; you shall place these over the people as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties and of tens.

Exodus 21:8

If she does not please her master who has chosen her for himself [as a wife], he shall let her be redeemed [by her family]. He does not have the authority to sell her to a foreign people, because he has been unfair to her.

Deuteronomy 29:10

“All of you stand today before the Lord your God—your chiefs, your tribes, your elders and your officers, even all the men of Israel,

Deuteronomy 31:28

Assemble before me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, so that I may speak these words in their hearing and call heaven and earth as witnesses against them.

Lamentations 5:14

Elders are gone from the gate;
Young men from their music.

Acts 6:12

And they provoked and incited the people, as well as the elders and the scribes, and they came up to Stephen and seized him and brought him before the Council (Sanhedrin, Jewish High Court).

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Summary

Ruth 4:2

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

The elders

General references

Job 29:7

Bible References