14Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-21)Here is a statute for the preventing of frauds and perjuries; for the divine law takes care of men’s rights and properties, and has made a hedge about them. Such a friend is it to human society and men’s civil interest. I. A law against frauds, Deut. 19:14. 1. Here is an implicit direction given to the first planters of Canaan to fix land-marks, according to the distribution of the land to the sev…
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