Reference: Landmark
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Fences and walls seem to have been little used in Judea, Mr 2:23, though gardens were sometimes inclosed. The ancient and permanent limits, therefore, of individual property in the open field, Ru 2:3, were marked by trees or heaps of stones at the corners; and as it was easy, by removing these, to encroach on a neighbor's ground, a peculiar form of dishonesty arose, requiring a severe punishment, De 19:14; Pr 22:28; Ho 5:10.
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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.
And [Ruth] went and gleaned in a field after the reapers; and she happened to stop at the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.
Remove not the ancient landmark which your fathers have set up.
The princes of Judah are like those who remove the landmark [the barrier between right and wrong]; I will pour out My wrath upon them like water.
Easton
a boundary line indicated by a stone, stake, etc. (De 19:14; 27:17; Pr 22:28; 23:10; Job 24:2). Landmarks could not be removed without incurring the severe displeasure of God.
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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.
Cursed is he who moves [back] his neighbor's landmark. All the people shall say, Amen.
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks and pasture them [appropriating land and flocks openly].
Remove not the ancient landmark which your fathers have set up.
Remove not the ancient landmark and enter not into the fields of the fatherless,
Fausets
A stone or post usually, easily removable, from whence the charges against its removal were needed (De 19:14; 27:16).
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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.
Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother. All the people shall say, Amen.
Hastings
The word (geb
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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.
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.
Cursed is he who moves [back] his neighbor's landmark. All the people shall say, Amen.
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks and pasture them [appropriating land and flocks openly].
Remove not the ancient landmark which your fathers have set up.
Remove not the ancient landmark and enter not into the fields of the fatherless,
The princes of Judah are like those who remove the landmark [the barrier between right and wrong]; I will pour out My wrath upon them like water.
Morish
Anything, as a stone or stake, that marked the boundary of a tribe, or of a man's possession. The moving of such was forbidden by the law. De 19:14; Job 24:2; Pr 22:28; 23:10.
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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.
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks and pasture them [appropriating land and flocks openly].
Remove not the ancient landmark which your fathers have set up.
Remove not the ancient landmark and enter not into the fields of the fatherless,