Deuteronomy 19:14-16
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Removal of Landmarks. 14 You shall not move your neighbor’s boundary markers[a] erected by your forebears in the heritage that will be allotted to you in the land the Lord, your God, is giving you to possess.(A)
False Witnesses. 15 (B)One witness alone shall not stand against someone in regard to any crime or any offense that may have been committed; a charge shall stand only on the testimony of two or three witnesses.(C)
16 If a hostile witness rises against someone to accuse that person of wrongdoing,
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- 19:14 Move your neighbor’s boundary markers: a prohibition against furtively extending one’s property by moving a neighbor’s boundary stone.
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