Deuteronomy 19:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 “You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, set up by former generations, on the property that will be allotted to you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark in the land which the Lord your God gives you to possess, which the men of old [the first dividers of the land] set. American Standard Version (1901) Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor’s landmark, which they of old time have set, in thine inheritance which thou shalt inherit, in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess it. Common English Bible Now in the land the LORD your God is giving you, in your allotted property that you will receive there, you must not tamper with your neighbor’s property line, which has been previously established. Catholic Public Domain Version You shall not take up or move the landmark of your neighbor, which those before you have placed, in your possession that the Lord your God will give to you, in the land you will receive to possess. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thou shalt not take nor remove thy neighbour's landmark, which thy predecessors have set in thy possession, which the Lord thy God will give thee in the land that thou shalt receive to possess. |
If it was not premeditated but came about by an act of God, then I will appoint for you a place to which the killer may flee.
The Lord tears down the house of the proud but maintains the widow’s boundaries.
The princes of Judah have become like those who remove the landmark; on them I will pour out my wrath like water.
“ ‘Cursed be anyone who moves a neighbor’s boundary marker.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’
“At that time, I charged you as follows: ‘Although the Lord your God has given you this land to occupy, all your troops shall cross over armed as the vanguard of your Israelite kin.