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Ruth 4:1

Meanwhile, Boaz went to the gate and sat down there. Soon the kinsman-redeemer of whom he had spoken came along, and Boaz said, “Come over here, my friend, and sit down.” So he went over and sat down.

Ruth 4:1 BSB
  1. a The Hebrew word for kinsman-redeemer or guardian-redeemer is a legal term for the kinsman who redeems or vindicates a relative; also in verses 3, 6, 8, and 14; see Leviticus 25:25–55.

Ruth 4:1 has 11 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Deuteronomy 25:7 (7 votes) and Ruth 3:12 (5 votes). 15 other verses point back to it. It links with 10 other books, from Genesis 23 to Zechariah 2.

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Which verses does Ruth 4:1 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Deuteronomy 25:77 votes

    But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, she is to go to the elders at the city gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He is not willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.”

  2. Ruth 3:125 votes

    Yes, it is true that I am a kinsman-redeemer, but there is a redeemer nearer than I.

  3. Deuteronomy 16:182 votes

    You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.

  4. Deuteronomy 21:191 vote

    his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown,

  5. Job 29:71 vote

    When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the public square,

  6. Job 31:211 vote

    if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,

  7. Amos 5:10–121 vote

    There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity. Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted. …

  8. Amos 5:151 vote

    Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

  9. Deuteronomy 17:50 votes

    you must bring out to your gates the man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you must stone that person to death.

  10. Isaiah 55:10 votes

    “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!

  11. Zechariah 2:60 votes

Which verses point to Ruth 4:1?

The 10 strongest of 15.