Thematic Bible: Enactments to protect
Thematic Bible
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Not to move landmarks
“You shall not move your neighbor’s boundary mark, which the ancestors have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit in the land that the Lord your God gives you to possess.
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, then you may pluck the heads with your hand, but you shall not wield a sickle in your neighbor’s standing grain.
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Not to covet the fields of another
‘You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, and you shall not desire your neighbor’s house, his field or his male servant or his female servant, his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.’
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Against injuring the produce of
“If a fire breaks out and spreads to thorn bushes, so that stacked grain or the standing grain or the field itself is consumed, he who started the fire shall surely make restitution.
Agriculture or husbandry » Enactments to protect » Against the trespass of cattle
“If a man lets a field or vineyard be grazed bare and lets his animal loose so that it grazes in another man’s field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard.