Deuteronomy 27:17
Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmarks: and all the people shall say: Amen.
Open Deuteronomy 27:17 in the Motif Searcher, word by word across all five texts →Show on the spiral →The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Maledictus qui transfert terminos proximi sui : et dicet omnis populus : Amen.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Ἐπικατάρατος ὁ μετατιθεὶς ὅρια τοῦ πλησίον. καὶ ἐροῦσιν πᾶς ὁ λαός Γένοιτο.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אָר֕וּר מַסִּ֖יג גְּב֣וּל רֵעֵ֑הוּ וְאָמַ֥ר כָּל הָעָ֖ם אָמֵֽן
Haydock's commentary
Landmarks, contrary to the prohibition, chap. xix. 14. The Rabbins say that Cain first adopted such distinctions. The ancient Greeks placed little pillars at the end of their fields, with the name of the owner engraven upon them. (Pollux, iii. 9.)
All Thrace was divided in this manner. (Xenophon, Anab.)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.