23:10 Do not move an ancient boundary stone,
or take over 1 the fields of the fatherless,
19:14 You must not encroach on your neighbor’s property, 2 which will have been defined 3 in the inheritance you will obtain in the land the Lord your God is giving you. 4
24:2 Men 5 move boundary stones;
they seize the flock and pasture them. 6
1 tn Or “encroach on” (NIV, NRSV); Heb “go into.”
2 tn Heb “border.” Cf. NRSV “You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker.”
3 tn Heb “which they set off from the beginning.”
4 tn The Hebrew text includes “to possess it.” This phrase has been left untranslated to avoid redundancy.
5 tn The line is short: “they move boundary stones.” So some commentators have supplied a subject, such as “wicked men.” The reason for its being wicked men is that to move the boundary stone was to encroach dishonestly on the lands of others (Deut 19:14; 27:17).
6 tc The LXX reads “and their shepherd.” Many commentators accept this reading. But the MT says that they graze the flocks that they have stolen. The difficulty with the MT reading is that there is no suffix on the final verb – but that is not an insurmountable difference.