Thematic Bible: Enactments to protect


Thematic Bible



Do not move your neighbor's boundary mark. The ancestors have set this in your inheritance. You will inherit this in the land Jehovah your God gives you to possess. Verse ConceptsFraudCovenant breakersAgriculture, RestrictionsBoundariesCheatingInjustice, Examples OfLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityProperty, LandStonesLandmarksReal EstatePropertyMoving OnConflictMoving To A New Placeborders


When you enter your neighbor's standing grain you may pluck the heads with your hand. But you must not wield a sickle in your neighbor's standing grain. Verse ConceptsCornPoverty, Remedies ForSickles

Do not desire another man's wife; do not covet another man's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his donkey, or any thing that belongs to him.' Verse ConceptsCoveting, prohibition ofAgriculture, RestrictionsdesiresGreed, Believers' Response ToLaw, Ten CommandmentsMaterialism, As An Aspect Of SinLiving In HousesServants Of PeopleMarriage Controlled

A fire starts and spreads into the underbrush so that it burns up stacked or standing grain or ruins a field. The person who started the fire must make up for the loss. Verse ConceptsCornAgriculture, RestrictionsFieldsAgriculture, TermsThornsWeedsArsonBurning Plants

Someone lets his livestock graze in a field or a vineyard. They stray and graze in another person's field. He must make up for what the damaged field was expected to produce. If he lets them ruin the whole field with their grazing, he must make up from his own field for the loss with the best from his field and vineyard. Verse ConceptsAgriculture, RestrictionsCarelessnessShepherds, As OccupationsVineyardAnimals Eating