28Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Thou 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.
Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
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.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 28)1. We are here taught not to invade another man’s right, though we can find ways of doing it ever so secretly and plausibly, clandestinely and by fraud, without any open force. Let not property in general be entrenched upon, by robbing men of their liberties and privileges, or of any just ways of maintaining them. Let not the property of particular persons be encroached upon. The land-marks, or me…
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