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Don`t move the ancient boundary stone, Which your fathers have set up.
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A Command for Social Justice
All commentators agree that the verse's primary meaning is a literal prohibition against moving physical boundary markers to steal land. Scholars like Albert Barnes describe this as an act of "grasping covetousness," often targeting the poor. This law, also found in Deuteronomy, was a cornerstone of social justice and property rights in ancient Israel.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
A protest against the grasping covetousness (Isaiah 5:8) which is regardless of the rights of the poor, upon whose inheritance people e…
19th Century
Anglican
Remove not the ancient landmark.— The stones marking the boundaries of the fields: evidently a not uncommon crime, from the earnestness wi…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Remove not the ancient landmark which your fathers have set . ] Or, "the ancient border" or "boundary" F14
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