10 Do not remove the ancient [a]landmark,
Nor enter the fields of the fatherless;

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:10 boundary

Saying 11

10 Do not move an ancient boundary stone(A)
    or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

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28 (A)Do not remove the ancient [a]landmark
Which your fathers have set.

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  1. Proverbs 22:28 boundary

Saying 5

28 Do not move an ancient boundary stone(A)
    set up by your ancestors.

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10 (A)Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless,
The alien or the poor.
(B)Let none of you plan evil in his heart
Against his brother.’

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10 Do not oppress the widow(A) or the fatherless, the foreigner(B) or the poor.(C) Do not plot evil against each other.’(D)

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17 (A)‘Cursed is the one who moves his neighbor’s landmark.’

“And all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

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17 “Cursed is anyone who moves their neighbor’s boundary stone.”(A)

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

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27 (A)Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: (B)to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, (C)and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

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27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after(A) orphans and widows(B) in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.(C)

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Thus says the Lord: (A)“Execute[a] judgment and righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong and do no violence to the stranger, the (B)fatherless, or the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

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  1. Jeremiah 22:3 Dispense justice

This is what the Lord says: Do what is just(A) and right. Rescue from the hand of the oppressor(B) the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow,(C) and do not shed innocent blood(D) in this place.

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Property Boundaries

14 (A)“You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which the men of old have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.

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14 Do not move your neighbor’s boundary stone set up by your predecessors in the inheritance you receive in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess.(A)

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And I will come near you for judgment;
I will be a swift witness
Against sorcerers,
Against adulterers,
(A)Against perjurers,
Against those who (B)exploit wage earners and (C)widows and orphans,
And against those who turn away an alien—
Because they do not fear Me,”
Says the Lord of hosts.

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“So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers,(A) adulterers(B) and perjurers,(C) against those who defraud laborers of their wages,(D) who oppress the widows(E) and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners(F) among you of justice, but do not fear(G) me,” says the Lord Almighty.

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“For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly (A)execute [a]judgment between a man and his neighbor,

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  1. Jeremiah 7:5 justice

If you really change(A) your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly,(B)

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They slay the widow and the stranger,
And murder the fatherless.

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They slay the widow(A) and the foreigner;
    they murder the fatherless.(B)

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21 If I have raised my hand (A)against the fatherless,
When I saw I had help in the gate;
22 Then let my arm fall from my shoulder,
Let my arm be torn from the socket.
23 For (B)destruction from God is a terror to me,
And because of His magnificence I cannot endure.

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21 if I have raised my hand against the fatherless,(A)
    knowing that I had influence in court,(B)
22 then let my arm fall from the shoulder,
    let it be broken off at the joint.(C)
23 For I dreaded destruction from God,(D)
    and for fear of his splendor(E) I could not do such things.(F)

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Some remove (A)landmarks;
They seize flocks violently and feed on them;
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless;
They (B)take the widow’s ox as a pledge.

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There are those who move boundary stones;(A)
    they pasture flocks they have stolen.(B)
They drive away the orphan’s donkey
    and take the widow’s ox in pledge.(C)

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You have sent widows away empty,
And the [a]strength of the fatherless was crushed.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 22:9 Lit. arms

And you sent widows(A) away empty-handed(B)
    and broke the strength of the fatherless.(C)

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