Proverbs 23:10
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10 Do not remove an ancient landmark
or encroach on the fields of orphans,(A)
Proverbs 22:28
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28 Do not remove the ancient landmark
that your ancestors set up.(A)
Zechariah 7:10
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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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Deuteronomy 27:17
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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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James 1:27
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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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Jeremiah 22:3
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3 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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Deuteronomy 19:14
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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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Malachi 3:5
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5 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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Jeremiah 7:5
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5 For if you truly amend your ways and your doings, if you truly act justly one with another,(A)
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Psalm 94:6
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6 They kill the widow and the stranger;
they murder the orphan,
Job 31:21-23
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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)
Job 24:2-3
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2 The wicked[a] remove landmarks;
they seize flocks and pasture them.(A)
3 They drive away the donkey of the orphan;
they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.(B)
Footnotes
- 24.2 Gk: Heb they
Job 22:9
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Footnotes
- 22.9 Gk Syr Tg Vg: Heb were crushed
Job 6:27
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27 You would even cast lots over the orphan
and bargain over your friend.(A)
Job 24:9
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9 “There are those who snatch the orphan child from the breast
and take as a pledge the infant of the poor.(A)
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