18 “You should set judges+ and officers+ for yourself inside all your gates that Jehovah your God is giving you by your tribes, and they must judge the people with righteous judgment.

4 And he must flee+ to one of these cities and stand at the entrance of the gate+ of the city and speak his words in the hearing of the older men+ of that city; and they must receive him into the city to themselves and give him a place and he must dwell with them.

11 At this all the people that were in the gate and the older men said: “Witnesses! May Jehovah grant the wife* who is coming into your house to be like Rachel+ and like Leʹah,+ both of whom built the house of Israel;+ and you prove your worth in Ephʹra·thah+ and make a notable name* in Bethʹle·hem.+