Thematic Bible: Enactments to protect
Thematic Bible
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Not to move landmarks
“You shall not move your neighbor’s boundary mark, which the forefathers [who first divided the territory] have set, in the land which you will inherit in the land which the Lord your God is giving you to possess.
Verse Concepts
Do not move the ancient landmark [at the boundary of the property]
Which your fathers have set.
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Not to cut down crops of another
“When you come into the standing grain of your neighbor, you may pluck the ears of grain with your hand, but you shall not wield a sickle in your neighbor’s standing grain [to harvest it].
Verse Concepts
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Not to covet the fields of another
‘You shall not covet [that is, desire and seek to acquire] your neighbor’s wife, nor desire your neighbor’s house, his field, his male servant or his female servant, his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.’
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Against injuring the produce of
“If fire breaks out and spreads to thorn bushes so that the stacked grain or standing grain or the field is consumed, he who started the fire shall make full restitution.
Verse Concepts
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Against the trespass of cattle
“If a man causes a field or vineyard to be grazed bare or lets his livestock loose so that it grazes in another man’s field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard.
Verse Concepts