Proverbs 23:10

¶ Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

Remove {H5253} not the old {H5769} landmark {H1366}; and enter {H935} not into the fields {H7704} of the fatherless {H3490}:

Don't move the ancient boundary stone or encroach on the land of the fatherless;

Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

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Cross-References

  • Proverbs 22:28 (8 votes)

    ¶ Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

  • Zechariah 7:10 (7 votes)

    And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

  • Deuteronomy 27:17 (5 votes)

    Cursed [be] he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  • Deuteronomy 19:14 (4 votes)

    ¶ Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.

  • Jeremiah 22:3 (4 votes)

    Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

  • James 1:27 (4 votes)

    Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.

  • Job 6:27 (3 votes)

    Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig [a pit] for your friend.