Deuteronomy 19:14 meaning and explanation
You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, which was set up by your ancestors to mark the inheritance you shall receive in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
Deuteronomy 19:14, Berean Standard Bible
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Moses is speaking to Israel as they prepare to enter Canaan, and this command sits among laws about cities of refuge and honest testimony. In an agrarian society without land registries, a boundary stone was the visible deed to a family's inheritance, so moving it was a quiet form of theft that could not easily be undone.
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