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Concern for Justice

14 “When you arrive in the land the Lord your God is giving you as your special possession, you must never steal anyone’s land by moving the boundary markers your ancestors set up to mark their property.

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Laws Concerning Witnesses

14 You must not encroach on your neighbor’s property,[a] which will have been defined[b] in the inheritance you will obtain in the land the Lord your God is giving you.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 19:14 tn Heb “border.” Cf. NRSV “You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker.”
  2. Deuteronomy 19:14 tn Heb “which they set off from the beginning.”
  3. Deuteronomy 19:14 tn The Hebrew text includes “to possess it.” This phrase has been left untranslated to avoid redundancy.