Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

General references

Bible References

Shalt not remove

Job 24:2

“Some remove the landmarks;
They [violently] seize and pasture flocks [appropriating land and flocks openly].
Proverbs 22:28

Do not move the ancient landmark [at the boundary of the property]
Which your fathers have set.
Proverbs 23:10

Do not move the ancient landmark [at the boundary of the property]
And do not go into the fields of the fatherless [to take what is theirs],
Hosea 5:10

The princes of Judah are like those who move a boundary marker;
I will pour out My wrath on them like [an unrestrained flood of] water.

General references

Deuteronomy 27:17
‘Cursed is he who moves his neighbor’s boundary mark.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’