Deuteronomy 19:14

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.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

13Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the blood of the innocent from Israel, that it may go well with thee.

15One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth; at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be establishment

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Cross References

Exodus 21:13And if a man lie not in wait, but God cause it to come to hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he may flee.

Deuteronomy 4:41Then Moses separated three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising;

Job 24:2There are that remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed them.

Proverbs 23:10Remove not the ancient landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless;

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 19:2-14

The Cities of Refuge. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 When the Lord thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the Lord thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses; 2 Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it. 3 Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither. 4 And this is the case of… Read the whole commentary →

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