Thematic Bible: Enactments to protect


Thematic Bible



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. Verse ConceptsFraudCovenant breakersAgriculture, RestrictionsBoundariesCheatingInjustice, Examples OfLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityProperty, LandStonesLandmarksReal EstatePropertyMoving OnConflictMoving To A New Placeborders


When you come into your neighbor's standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not move a sickle to your neighbor's standing grain. Verse ConceptsCornPoverty, Remedies ForSickles

"Neither shall you covet your neighbor's wife; neither shall you desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's." Verse ConceptsCoveting, prohibition ofAgriculture, RestrictionsdesiresGreed, Believers' Response ToLaw, Ten CommandmentsMaterialism, As An Aspect Of SinLiving In HousesServants Of PeopleMarriage Controlled

"If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution. Verse ConceptsCornAgriculture, RestrictionsFieldsAgriculture, TermsThornsWeedsArsonBurning Plants

"If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten, and lets his animal loose, and it grazes in another man's field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field, and from the best of his own vineyard. Verse ConceptsAgriculture, RestrictionsCarelessnessShepherds, As OccupationsVineyardAnimals Eating