¹¹ And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The Lord make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:

²³ Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.

¹⁰ They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

¹² For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.