KJV King James Version
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
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Proverbs 22:28
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Do not move an ancient boundary stone which your fathers have placed.
WEB World English Bible
Don’t move the ancient boundary stone, which your fathers have set up.
ASV American Standard Version
Remove not the ancient landmark, Which thy fathers have set.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Remove not a border of olden times, That thy fathers have made.
Surrounding context — Proverbs 22
25 Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
26 Be not thou [one] of them that strike hands, [or] of them that are sureties for debts.
27 If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
29 Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean [men].
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Deuteronomy 27:17Cursed [be] he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.Deuteronomy 19:14Thou 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.Proverbs 23:10Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:Job 24:2[Some] remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed [thereof].
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