Reference: Landmark
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Fences and walls seem to have been little used in Judea, Mr 2:23, though gardens were sometimes inclosed. The ancient and permanent limits, therefore, of individual property in the open field, Ru 2:3, were marked by trees or heaps of stones at the corners; and as it was easy, by removing these, to encroach on a neighbor's ground, a peculiar form of dishonesty arose, requiring a severe punishment, De 19:14; Pr 22:28; Ho 5:10.
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"You shall not move the boundary [marker] of your neighbor that {former generations} set up on your property in the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you to take possession of it.
So she went and came and gleaned in the field behind the reapers. And she happened [by] chance [upon] the tract of field {belonging to} Boaz, who [was] from the clan of Elimelech.
Do not remove an ancient boundary marker which your ancestors made.
The princes of Judah have become like those who remove a landmark; on them I will pour out my wrath like water.
And it happened that he was going through the grain fields on the Sabbath, and his disciples began to make [their] way [while] plucking off the heads of grain.
Easton
a boundary line indicated by a stone, stake, etc. (De 19:14; 27:17; Pr 22:28; 23:10; Job 24:2). Landmarks could not be removed without incurring the severe displeasure of God.
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"You shall not move the boundary [marker] of your neighbor that {former generations} set up on your property in the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you to take possession of it.
'Cursed be the one who moves the boundary [marker] of his neighbor.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
They remove border [stones]; they seize flocks, and they pasture [them].
Do not remove an ancient boundary marker which your ancestors made.
Do not remove an ancient boundary marker, and on the fields of orphans do not encroach;
Fausets
A stone or post usually, easily removable, from whence the charges against its removal were needed (De 19:14; 27:16).
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"You shall not move the boundary [marker] of your neighbor that {former generations} set up on your property in the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you to take possession of it.
'Cursed be the one who dishonors his father or his mother.' And all of the people shall say, 'Amen.'
Hastings
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"You shall not move the boundary [marker] of your neighbor that {former generations} set up on your property in the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you to take possession of it.
"You shall not move the boundary [marker] of your neighbor that {former generations} set up on your property in the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you to take possession of it.
'Cursed be the one who moves the boundary [marker] of his neighbor.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
They remove border [stones]; they seize flocks, and they pasture [them].
Do not remove an ancient boundary marker which your ancestors made.
Do not remove an ancient boundary marker, and on the fields of orphans do not encroach;
The princes of Judah have become like those who remove a landmark; on them I will pour out my wrath like water.
Morish
Anything, as a stone or stake, that marked the boundary of a tribe, or of a man's possession. The moving of such was forbidden by the law. De 19:14; Job 24:2; Pr 22:28; 23:10.
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"You shall not move the boundary [marker] of your neighbor that {former generations} set up on your property in the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you to take possession of it.
They remove border [stones]; they seize flocks, and they pasture [them].
Do not remove an ancient boundary marker which your ancestors made.
Do not remove an ancient boundary marker, and on the fields of orphans do not encroach;