Ruth 4:2
And Booz taking ten men of the ancients of the city, said to them: Sit ye down here.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Tollens autem Booz decem viros de senioribus civitatis, dixit ad eos : Sedete hic.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἔλαβεν Βόος δέκα ἄνδρας ἀπὸ τῶν πρεσβυτέρων τῆς πόλεως καὶ εἶπεν Καθίσατε ὧδε· καὶ ἐκάθισαν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיִּקַּ֞ח עֲשָׂרָ֧ה אֲנָשִׁ֛ים מִזִּקְנֵ֥י הָעִ֖יר וַיֹּ֣אמֶר שְׁבוּ פֹ֑ה וַיֵּשֵֽׁבוּ
Haydock's commentary
Here, as witnesses, not as judges, ver. 9. (Calmet)
This number was requisite in matters of consequence. (Grotius)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.