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Proverbs 23:10

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Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
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  1. Proverbs 22:28Rank 1 from verse 10
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    28Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

  2. Zechariah 7:10Rank 2 from verse 10
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    10And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

  3. Deuteronomy 27:17Rank 3 from verse 10
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    17Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  4. James 1:27Rank 4 from verse 10
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    27Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

  5. Jeremiah 22:3Rank 5 from verse 10
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    3Thus saith the Lord; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

  6. Deuteronomy 19:14Rank 6 from verse 10
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    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.

  7. Job 24:2–3Rank 7 from verse 10
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    2Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.

    3They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

  8. Jeremiah 7:5Rank 8 from verse 10
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    5For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;

  9. Job 22:9Rank 9 from verse 10
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    9Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

  10. Job 31:21–23Rank 10 from verse 10
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    21If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

    22Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.

    23For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

  11. Job 6:27Rank 11 from verse 10
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    27Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.

  12. Malachi 3:5Rank 12 from verse 10
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    5And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.

  13. Psalms 94:6Rank 13 from verse 10
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    6They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

  14. Job 24:9Rank 14 from verse 10
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    9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

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Proverbs 23:10

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remove

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To take or put away in any manner; to cause to leave a person or thing; to banish or destroy. To cause to change place; to put from its place in any manner.

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old

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1. Advanced in age or existing for a long time. 2. Of the stated or specified age. 3. Ancient, former, previous, or worn.

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enter

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To go or come in; to penetrate; to become an ingredient or constituent part; to enter the mind.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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23:9Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

23:10Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

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23:11For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.

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