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Wednesday, July 9th, 2025
the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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Proverbs 23:10

10 Don't stealthily move back the boundary lines or cheat orphans out of their property, For they have a powerful Advocate who will go to bat for them.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Landmarks;   Orphan;   Thompson Chain Reference - Fatherless;   Landmarks;   Orphans;   Social Duties;   Temperance;   Temperance-Intemperance;   Widow and Fatherless;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Fatherless;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Testimony;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Heart;   Pardon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Landmark;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Fatherless;   Landmark;   Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Landmark;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Land-mark;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Field;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Landmark;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Fatherless;   Landmark;   Palestine;   Trust, Breach of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Boundaries;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Don’t move an ancient boundary marker,and don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
Hebrew Names Version
Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless:
King James Version
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
English Standard Version
Do not move an ancient landmark or enter the fields of the fatherless,
New American Standard Bible
Do not move the ancient boundary Or go into the fields of the fatherless,
New Century Version
Don't move an old stone that marks a border, and don't take fields that belong to orphans.
Amplified Bible
Do not move the ancient landmark [at the boundary of the property] And do not go into the fields of the fatherless [to take what is theirs],
World English Bible
Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless:
Geneva Bible (1587)
Remooue not the ancient boundes, and enter not into the fieldes of the fatherlesse.
Legacy Standard Bible
Do not move the ancient boundaryAnd do not come into the fields of the orphans,
Berean Standard Bible
Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
Contemporary English Version

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Don't move a boundary marker or take the land that belongs to orphans.
Complete Jewish Bible
Don't move the ancient boundary stone or encroach on the land of the fatherless;
Darby Translation
Remove not the ancient landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Easy-to-Read Version
Never move an old property line, and don't take land that belongs to orphans.
George Lamsa Translation
Do not remove the old landmark; nor enter into the field of the fatherless;
Good News Translation

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Never move an old property line or take over land owned by orphans.
Lexham English Bible
Do not remove an ancient boundary marker, and on the fields of orphans do not encroach;
Literal Translation
Do not move the old landmark, and do not enter into the fields of the fatherless,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Remoue not ye olde lande marke, and come not within ye felde of the fatherlesse:
American Standard Version
Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Bible in Basic English
Do not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no father;
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Remove not the ancient landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless;
King James Version (1611)
Remoue not the old landmarke; and enter not into the fields of the fatherlesse.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Remoue not the olde lande marke, and come not within the fielde of the fatherlesse:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Remove not the ancient landmarks; and enter not upon the possession of the fatherless:
English Revised Version
Remove not the ancient landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Touche thou not the termes of litle children; and entre thou not in to the feeld of fadirles and modirles children.
Update Bible Version
Don't remove the ancient landmark; And don't enter into the fields of the fatherless:
Webster's Bible Translation
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
New English Translation
Do not move an ancient boundary stone, or take over the fields of the fatherless,
New King James Version
Do not remove the ancient landmark, Nor enter the fields of the fatherless;
New Living Translation
Don't cheat your neighbor by moving the ancient boundary markers; don't take the land of defenseless orphans.
New Life Bible
Do not take away the old land-mark, or go into the fields of those without a father.
New Revised Standard
Do not remove an ancient landmark or encroach on the fields of orphans,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Do not move back the ancient boundary, and, into the fields of the fatherless, do not enter;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field of the fatherless:
Revised Standard Version
Do not remove an ancient landmark or enter the fields of the fatherless;
Young's Literal Translation
Remove not a border of olden times, And into fields of the fatherless enter not,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Do not move the ancient boundary Or go into the fields of the fatherless,

Contextual Overview

1010 Don't stealthily move back the boundary lines or cheat orphans out of their property, For they have a powerful Advocate who will go to bat for them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Remove: Proverbs 22:28, Deuteronomy 19:14, Deuteronomy 27:17, Job 24:2

landmark: or, bound

fatherless: Job 6:27, Job 22:9, Job 24:3, Job 24:9, Job 31:21-23, Psalms 94:6, Jeremiah 7:5, Jeremiah 22:3, Zechariah 7:10, Malachi 3:5, James 1:27

Reciprocal: Exodus 22:23 - I will surely Deuteronomy 24:15 - lest he Psalms 103:6 - executeth Psalms 136:24 - General Psalms 140:12 - the Lord Psalms 146:7 - executeth Proverbs 22:22 - Rob Isaiah 3:13 - standeth up Jeremiah 49:11 - thy fatherless Lamentations 3:35 - turn Hosea 14:3 - for Amos 4:1 - which oppress

Cross-References

Genesis 23:1
Sarah lived 127 years. Sarah died in Kiriath Arba, present-day Hebron, in the land of Canaan. Abraham mourned for Sarah and wept.
Genesis 23:3
Then Abraham got up from mourning his dead wife and spoke to the Hittites: "I know I'm only an outsider here among you, but sell me a burial plot so that I can bury my dead decently."
Genesis 24:10
The servant took ten of his master's camels and, loaded with gifts from his master, traveled to Aram Naharaim and the city of Nahor. Outside the city, he made the camels kneel at a well. It was evening, the time when the women came to draw water. He prayed, "O God , God of my master Abraham, make things go smoothly this day; treat my master Abraham well! As I stand here by the spring while the young women of the town come out to get water, let the girl to whom I say, ‘Lower your jug and give me a drink,' and who answers, ‘Drink, and let me also water your camels'—let her be the woman you have picked out for your servant Isaac. Then I'll know that you're working graciously behind the scenes for my master."
Genesis 34:20
So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the public square and spoke to the town council: "These men like us; they are our friends. Let them settle down here and make themselves at home; there's plenty of room in the country for them. And, just think, we can even exchange our daughters in marriage. But these men will only accept our invitation to live with us and become one big family on one condition, that all our males become circumcised just as they themselves are. This is a very good deal for us—these people are very wealthy with great herds of livestock and we're going to get our hands on it. So let's do what they ask and have them settle down with us."
Genesis 34:24
Everyone who was anyone in the city agreed with Hamor and his son, Shechem; every male was circumcised.
Job 29:7
"When I walked downtown and sat with my friends in the public square, Young and old greeted me with respect; I was honored by everyone in town. When I spoke, everyone listened; they hung on my every word. People who knew me spoke well of me; my reputation went ahead of me. I was known for helping people in trouble and standing up for those who were down on their luck. The dying blessed me, and the bereaved were cheered by my visits. All my dealings with people were good. I was known for being fair to everyone I met. I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame, Father to the needy, and champion of abused aliens. I grabbed street thieves by the scruff of the neck and made them give back what they'd stolen. I thought, ‘I'll die peacefully in my own bed, grateful for a long and full life, A life deep-rooted and well-watered, a life limber and dew-fresh, My soul suffused with glory and my body robust until the day I die.'
Matthew 9:1
Back in the boat, Jesus and the disciples recrossed the sea to Jesus' hometown. They were hardly out of the boat when some men carried a paraplegic on a stretcher and set him down in front of them. Jesus, impressed by their bold belief, said to the paraplegic, "Cheer up, son. I forgive your sins." Some religion scholars whispered, "Why, that's blasphemy!"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Remove not the old landmark,.... :-;

and enter not into the fields of the fatherless; to carry off the increase of them, to reap their wheat, or mow their grass, or turn in cattle to eat it; or to encroach upon them, take in any part of them, or join the whole to their own; for if there is a woe to them that lay field to field, much more to them that enter into and take the fields of the fatherless, and join them to their own, Isaiah 5:8.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 23:10. Remove not the old landmark — See the preceding chapter, Proverbs 22:28.

Enter not into the fields of the fatherless — Take nothing that belongs to an orphan. The heaviest curse of God will fall upon them that do so.


 
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