Holy Scripture

Deuteronomy 19:14

A church father on this verse
“Enjoin them too (as I have borrowed a figure from agriculture) to preserve inviolate the laws of common boundary, and to guard those paternal landmarks which the law protects. The affection of a neighbour often exceeds the love of a brother, for the one is often afar off, the other nigh at hand; the witness of your wh…”
Ambrose of Milan, 4th c. — Letters 1-10

Source: Septuagint

Original

14Thou shalt not move the landmarks of thy neighbor, which thy fathers set in the inheritance, in which thou hast obtained a share in the land, which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit.

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In context

12then shall the elders of his city send, and take him thence, and they shall deliver him into the hands of the avengers of blood, and he shall die.

13Thine eye shall not spare him; so shalt thou purge innocent blood from Israel, and it shall be well with thee.

— Deuteronomy 19:14 —

15One witness shall not stand to testify against a man for any iniquity, or for any fault, or for any sin which he may commit; by the mouth of two witnesses, or by the mouth of three witnesses, shall every word be established.

16And if an unjust witness rise up against a man, alleging iniquity against him;

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