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You 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 it.
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Property as a Sacred Trust
Commentators emphasize that this law protects a person's very means of livelihood. John Calvin calls moving a landmark a deceptive form of theft, while Albert Barnes connects it to the sanctity of life, arguing that a person's property is as sacred as their life. This law establishes God's deep concern for economic justice and the security of each person's possessions.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
As a man’s life is to be held sacred, so are his means of livelihood; and in this connection a prohibition is inserted against removing a neighbor’…
19th Century
Anglican
You shall not remove your neighbour's landmark. —Another law manifestly appropriate here, where it appears for the first …
16th Century
Protestant
A kind of theft is condemned here that is severely punished by the laws of Rome.105 For everyone’s property to be secure, it is necessar…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark By which one man's land is distinguished from another; for so to do i…
Direction is given to fix landmarks in Canaan. It is God's will that everyone should know what is theirs; and that means should be used to hinder t…
