Quotes About Boundaries

Please let us pass through your land. We will not cut through any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will stay on the Kingís Highway; we will not turn to the right or to the left until we have passed through your territory.”

But Edom answered, “You may not travel through our land, or we will come out and confront you with the sword.”

“Let us pass through your land. We will not cut through any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will stay on the Kingís Highway until we have passed through your territory.”

“Command the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land of Canaan, it will be allotted to you as an inheritance with these boundaries:

where it will turn from Azmon, join the Brook of Egypt, and end at the Sea.

Your western border will be the coastline of the Great Sea; this will be your boundary on the west.

and from Mount Hor to Lebo-hamath, then extend to Zedad,

continue to Ziphron, and end at Hazar-enan. This will be your boundary on the north.

The pasturelands around the cities you are to give the Levites will extend a thousand cubits from the wall on every side.

You are also to measure two thousand cubits outside the city on the east, two thousand on the south, two thousand on the west, and two thousand on the north, with the city in the center. These areas will serve as larger pasturelands for the cities.

Do not provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even a footprint, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as his possession.

But you did not go near the land of the Ammonites, or the land along the banks of the Jabbok River, or the cities of the hill country, or any place that the LORD our God had forbidden.

You shall not covet your neighborís wife. You shall not covet your neighborís house or field, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or shave your foreheads on behalf of the dead,

You must not move your neighborís boundary marker, which was set up by your ancestors to mark the inheritance you shall receive in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

A man is not to marry his fatherís wife, so that he will not dishonor his fatherís marriage bed.

You are not to seek peace or prosperity from them as long as you live.

If any man among you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp and stay outside.

You must have a place outside the camp to go and relieve yourself.

When you enter your neighborís vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, but you must not put any in your basket.

When you enter your neighborís grainfield, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you must not put a sickle to your neighborís grain.

When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security.

ëCursed is he who moves his neighborís boundary stone.í And let all the people say, ëAmen!í