Don’t move the ancient boundary stone, which your fathers have set up.
Parallel translations
- KJV Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
- BSB Do not move an ancient boundary stone which your fathers have placed.
- ESV Do not move the ancient landmark that your fathers have set.
- NKJV Do not remove the ancient landmark Which your fathers have set.
- NASB ¶Do not move the ancient boundary Which your fathers have set.
- NLT Don’t cheat your neighbor by moving the ancient boundary markers set up by previous generations.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- Deut 19:14You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess.
- Deut 27:17‘Cursed is he who removes his neighbor’s landmark.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
- Prov 23:10Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless:
- Job 24:2There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
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