10Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
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Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-11)Note, 1. The fatherless are taken under God’s special protection; with him they not only find mercy shown to them (Hos. 14:3) but justice done for them. He is their Redeemer , their Goöl , their near kinsman, that will take their part and stand up for them with jealousy, as taking himself affronted in the injuries done to them. As their Redeemer he will plead their cause against those that do them…
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