Deuteronomy 27:17
Good News Translation
"'God's curse on anyone who moves a neighbor's property line.' "And all the people will answer, 'Amen!'

New Revised Standard Version
“Cursed be anyone who moves a neighbor’s boundary marker.” All the people shall say, “Amen!”

New American Bible
“Cursed be anyone who moves a neighbor’s boundary markers!” And all the people shall answer, “Amen!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmarks: and all the people shall say: Amen.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmarks: and all the people shall say: Amen.

Deuteronomy 19:14 Thou shalt not take nor remove thy neighbour's landmark, which thy predecessors have set in thy possession, which the Lord thy God will give thee in the land that thou shalt receive to possess.

Proverbs 22:28 Pass not beyond the ancient bounds which thy fathers have set.

Proverbs 23:10,11 Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field of the fatherless: . . .

Context
Curses Pronounced from Ebal
16Cursed be he that honoureth not his father and mother: and all the people shall say: Amen. 17Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmarks: and all the people shall say: Amen.18Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of his way: and all the people shall say: Amen.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 19:14
Thou shalt not take nor remove thy neighbour's landmark, which thy predecessors have set in thy possession, which the Lord thy God will give thee in the land that thou shalt receive to possess.

Job 24:2
Some have removed landmarks, have taken away flocks by force, and fed them.

Proverbs 22:28
Pass not beyond the ancient bounds which thy fathers have set.

Hosea 5:10
The princes of Juda are become as they that take up the bound: I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.

Deuteronomy 27:16
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