Behind it, along the wall, is a stone bench - on which the elders of the city sat. This custom is referred in several Biblical passages.

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Behind it, along the wall, is a stone bench - on which the elders of the city sat. This custom is referred in several Biblical passages. Example (Ruth 4 1-2): "Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down".

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