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10 Do not remove an ancient landmark
    or encroach on the fields of orphans,(A)

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Saying 11

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

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28 Do not remove the ancient landmark
    that your ancestors set up.(A)

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Saying 5

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

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10 do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.(A)

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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 “ ‘Cursed be anyone who moves a neighbor’s boundary marker.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’(A)

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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 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.(A)

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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: Act with justice and righteousness and deliver from the hand of the oppressor anyone who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the alien, the orphan, and the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place.(A)

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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 “You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, set up by former generations, on the property that will be allotted to you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.(A)

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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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Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be swift to bear witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired workers in their wages, the widow, and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the alien and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.(A)

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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 truly amend your ways and your doings, if you truly act justly one with another,(A)

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

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They kill the widow and the stranger;
    they murder the orphan,

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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 against the orphan
    because I saw I had supporters at the gate;(A)
22 then let my shoulder blade fall from my shoulder,
    and let my arm be broken from its socket.(B)
23 For I was in terror of calamity from God,
    and I could not have faced his majesty.(C)

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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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The wicked[a] remove landmarks;
    they seize flocks and pasture them.(A)
They drive away the donkey of the orphan;
    they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 24.2 Gk: Heb they

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-handed,
    and the arms of the orphans you have crushed.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 22.9 Gk Syr Tg Vg: Heb were crushed

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

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