Proverbs 23:10

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Summary

Proverbs 23:10

Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

Remove

Fatherless

General references

Deuteronomy 27:17

Psalm 136:24

Bible References

Remove

Don't move the ancient boundary stone, which your fathers have set up.

You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.

'Cursed is he who removes his neighbor's landmark.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

Fatherless

Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.

You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.

For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

Thus says Yahweh: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

Don't oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.'

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me," says Yahweh of Armies.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

General references

'Cursed is he who removes his neighbor's landmark.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

And has delivered us from our adversaries; for his loving kindness endures forever: