Do not move an ancient landmark or enter the fields of the fatherless,
Do not move the ancient landmark that your fathers have set.
do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.”
“‘Cursed be anyone who moves his neighbor's landmark.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
Thus says the Lord: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.
“You shall not move your neighbor's landmark, which the men of old have set, in the inheritance that you will hold in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.
“For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly execute justice one with another,
They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless;
if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate, then let my shoulder blade fall from my shoulder, and let my arm be broken from its socket. For I was in terror of calamity from God, and I could not have faced his majesty.
Some move landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them. They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.
You would even cast lots over the fatherless, and bargain over your friend.
(There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and they take a pledge against the poor.)
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