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     * shalt not remove.
       Before the extensive use of fences, landed property was marked
       out by stones or posts, set up so as to ascertain the
       divisions of family estates.  It was easy to remove one of
       these landmarks, and set it in a different place; and thus a
       dishonest man might enlarge his own estate by contracting that
       of his neighbour.  Hence it was a matter of considerable
       importance to prevent this crime among the Israelites; among
       whom, removing them would be equivalent to forging, altering,
       destroying, or concealing the title-deeds of an estate among
       us.  Accordingly, by the Mosaic law, it was not only
       prohibited in the commandment against covetousness, but we
       find a particular curse expressly annexed to it in ch. 27:17.
       Josephus considers this law a general prohibition, intended
       not only to protect private property, but also to preserve the
       boundaries of kingdoms and countries inviolable.

     # 27:17; Job 24:2; Pr 22:28; 23:10; Ho 5:10|