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Proverbs 22:28 KJV

Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

Proverbs 22:28, King James Version

In context

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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Cross-references

  • Proverbs 23:10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
  • Deuteronomy 27:17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • Deuteronomy 19:14 Thou 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.