Thematic Bible: Enactments to protect
Thematic Bible
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Not to move landmarks
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.
Do not remove the ancient landmark which your fathers have set.
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Not to cut down crops of another
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.
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Not to covet the fields of another
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.'
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Against injuring the produce of
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.
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Against the trespass of cattle
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.