Deuteronomy 19:14

The Message

Don’t move your neighbor’s boundary markers, the longstanding landmarks set up by your pioneer ancestors defining their property. * * *

Cross References

Proverbs 15:25

God smashes the pretensions of the arrogant; he stands with those who have no standing.

Proverbs 22:28

Don’t stealthily move back the boundary lines staked out long ago by your ancestors.

Proverbs 23:10

Don’t stealthily move back the boundary lines or cheat orphans out of their property, For they have a powerful Advocate who will go to bat for them.

Hosea 5:10

“Israel’s rulers are crooks and thieves, cheating the people of their land, And I’m angry, good and angry. Every inch of their bodies is going to feel my anger.

Deuteronomy 3:18

I commanded you at that time, “God, your God, has given you this land to possess. Your men, fit and armed for the fight, are to cross the river in advance of their brothers, the People of Israel. Only your wives, children, and livestock (I know you have much livestock) may go ahead and settle down in the towns I have already given you until God secures living space for your brothers as he has for you and they have taken possession of the country west of the Jordan that God, your God, is giving them. After that, each man may return to the land I’ve given you here.” * * *

Deuteronomy 4:41

Then Moses set aside three towns in the country on the east side of the Jordan to which someone who had unintentionally killed a person could flee and find refuge. If the murder was unintentional and there was no history of bad blood, the murderer could flee to one of these cities and save his life: