Deuteronomio 19:14

14 Interés por la justicia
»Cuando llegues a la tierra que el Señor
tu Dios te da como preciada posesión, nunca le robes terreno a otro cambiando de lugar los límites de propiedad que tus antepasados establecieron.

Deuteronomio 19:14 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 19:14

Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark
By which one man's land is distinguished from another; for so to do is to injure a man's property, and alienate his lands to the use of another, which must be a very great evil, and render those that do it obnoxious to a curse, ( Deuteronomy 27:17 )

which they of old have set in thine inheritance, which thou shall
inherit in the land that the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it;
the land of Canaan: this is thought to refer to the bounds and limits set in the land by Eleazar and Joshua, and those concerned with them at the division of it; when not only the tribes were bounded; and distinguished by certain marks, but every man's estate, and the possession of every family in every tribe which though not as yet done when this law was made, yet, as it respects future times, might be said to be done of old, whenever there was any transgression of it, which it cannot be supposed would be very quickly done; and it is a law not only binding on the inhabitants of the land of Canaan, but all others, it being agreeably to the light and law of nature, and which was regarded among the Heathens, ( Proverbs 22:28 ) ( 23:10 ) (See Gill on Hosea 5:10).

Deuteronomio 19:14 In-Context

12 En ese caso, los ancianos de la ciudad del asesino enviarán representantes a la ciudad de refugio para traerlo de regreso y entregarlo al vengador del muerto para que le quite la vida.

13 ¡No sientas lástima por ese asesino! Limpia a Israel de la culpa de asesinar a personas inocentes; entonces todo te saldrá bien.

14 Interés por la justicia
»Cuando llegues a la tierra que el Señor
tu Dios te da como preciada posesión, nunca le robes terreno a otro cambiando de lugar los límites de propiedad que tus antepasados establecieron.

15 »No condenes a nadie por algún crimen o delito basado en el testimonio de un solo testigo. Los hechos del caso deben ser establecidos por el testimonio de dos o tres testigos.

16 »Si un testigo malicioso se presenta y acusa a alguien de haber cometido algún crimen o delito,