Verse 10

Do not move an ancient boundary marker, nor enter the fields of the fatherless.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 22:28 : 28 Do not remove the ancient boundary stone set up by your ancestors.
  • Jer 22:3 : 3 This is what the LORD says: Practice justice and righteousness. Rescue the one who has been robbed from the hand of the oppressor. Do not mistreat or harm the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.
  • Zech 7:10 : 10 Do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.'
  • Deut 19:14 : 14 Do not move your neighbor's boundary marker, established by the ancestors, in the inheritance you will receive in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
  • Deut 27:17 : 17 Cursed is anyone who moves his neighbor's boundary marker. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
  • Job 6:27 : 27 You would even cast lots over the fatherless and barter away your friend.
  • Job 22:9 : 9 You sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.
  • Job 24:2-3 : 2 People remove landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them. 3 They drive away the orphan’s donkey and take the widow’s ox as security.
  • Job 24:9 : 9 They snatch the orphan from the breast and take the poor as a pledge.
  • Job 31:21-23 : 21 If I have raised my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my support in the gate, 22 then let my shoulder fall from its socket, and let my arm be broken off at the joint. 23 For I have always feared disaster from God, and because of His majesty, I could not do such a thing.
  • Ps 94:6 : 6 They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 I will come near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, adulterers, and those who swear falsely; against those who defraud workers of their wages, oppress widows and orphans, and deprive foreigners of justice. They do not fear me, says the Lord of Hosts.
  • Jas 1:27 : 27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
  • Jer 7:5 : 5 For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly execute justice between a person and their neighbor,