Proverbs 22:28

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Let not the old landmark be moved which your fathers have put in place.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 19:14 : 14 Your neighbour's landmark, which was put in its place by the men of old times, is not to be moved or taken away in the land of your heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.
  • Prov 23:10 : 10 Do not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no father;
  • Deut 27:17 : 17 Cursed is he who takes his neighbour's landmark from its place. And let all the people say, So be it.
  • Job 24:2 : 2 The landmarks are changed by evil men, they violently take away flocks, together with their keepers.

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    10 Do not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no father;

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    14 Your neighbour's landmark, which was put in its place by the men of old times, is not to be moved or taken away in the land of your heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Prov 22:26-27
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    26 Be not one of those who give their hands in an agreement, or of those who make themselves responsible for debts:

    27 If you have nothing with which to make payment, he will take away your bed from under you.

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    17 Cursed is he who takes his neighbour's landmark from its place. And let all the people say, So be it.

  • Prov 22:29
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    29 Have you seen a man who is expert in his business? he will take his place before kings; his place will not be among low persons.

  • Job 24:2
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    2 The landmarks are changed by evil men, they violently take away flocks, together with their keepers.

  • Job 22:15
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    15 Will you keep the old way by which evil men went?

  • Prov 5:7-10
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    7 Give ear to me then, my sons, and do not put away my words from you.

    8 Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;

    9 For fear that you may give your honour to others, and your wealth to strange men:

    10 And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others;

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    30 A man may not take his father's wife or have sex relations with a woman who is his father's.

  • Prov 1:15
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    15 My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:

  • Prov 4:25-27
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    25 Keep your eyes on what is in front of you, looking straight before you.

    26 Keep a watch on your behaviour; let all your ways be rightly ordered.

    27 Let there be no turning to the right or to the left, keep your feet from evil.

  • Prov 24:27-28
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    27 Put your work in order outside, and make it ready in the field; and after that, see to the building of your house.

    28 Do not be a violent witness against your neighbour, or let your lips say what is false.

  • Prov 23:22
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    22 Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old.

  • Job 8:8
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    8 Put the question now to the past generations, and give attention to what has been searched out by their fathers:

  • Deut 24:17
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    17 Be upright in judging the cause of the man from a strange country and of him who has no father; do not take a widow's clothing on account of a debt:

  • Prov 25:6
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    15 Keep far from it, do not go near; be turned from it, and go on your way.

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    6 If a child is trained up in the right way, even when he is old he will not be turned away from it.

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  • Deut 28:30
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    30 You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it.

  • 2 Chr 30:7
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    7 Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were sinners against the Lord, the God of their fathers, so that he made them a cause of fear, as you see.

  • Prov 1:8
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    8 My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:

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    13 A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work;

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    27 But to be a witness between us and you, and between the future generations, that we have the right of worshipping the Lord with our burned offerings and our offerings of beasts and our peace-offerings; so that your children will not be able to say to our children in time to come, You have no part in the Lord.

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    20 My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:

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    8 If you are building a house, make a railing for the roof, so that the blood of any man falling from it will not come on your house.

  • Prov 22:22
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    28 You may not say evil of the judges, or put a curse on the ruler of your people.

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    23 Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds;

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    15 Do not keep a secret watch, O evil-doer, against the fields of the upright man, or send destruction on his resting-place:

  • Job 22:8-9
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    8 For it was the man with power who had the land, and the man with an honoured name who was living in it.

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  • Deut 8:18
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    18 But keep in mind the Lord your God: for it is he who gives you the power to get wealth, so that he may give effect to the agreement which he made by his oath with your fathers, as at this day.

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    17 Let them be for yourself only, not for other men with you.

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