Ulangan 19:14

Laws Concerning Witnesses

19:14 You must not encroach on your neighbor’s property, ¹  which will have been defined ²  in the inheritance you will obtain in the land the Lord your God is giving you. ³ 

Mazmur 104:9

104:9 You set up a boundary for them that they could not cross,

so that they would not cover the earth again. ⁴ 

Amsal 8:29

8:29 when he gave the sea his decree

that the waters should not pass over his command, ⁵ 

when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

Yeremia 5:22

5:22 “You should fear me!” says the Lord.

“You should tremble in awe before me! ⁶ 

I made the sand to be a boundary for the sea,

a permanent barrier that it can never cross.

Its waves may roll, but they can never prevail.

They may roar, but they can never cross beyond that boundary.” ⁷ 

[19:14]  ¹ tn Heb “border.” Cf. NRSV “You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker.”

[19:14]  ² tn Heb “which they set off from the beginning.”

[19:14]  ³ tn The Hebrew text includes “to possess it.” This phrase has been left untranslated to avoid redundancy.

[104:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “a boundary you set up, they will not cross, they will not return to cover the earth.”

[8:29]  ⁵ tn Heb “his mouth.”

[5:22]  ⁶ tn Heb “Should you not fear me? Should you not tremble in awe before me?” The rhetorical questions expect the answer explicit in the translation.

[5:22]  ⁷ tn Heb “it.” The referent is made explicit to avoid any possible confusion.