Deuteronomy 27:17
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New International Version (©2011)
"Cursed is anyone who moves their neighbor's boundary stone." Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"

New Living Translation (©2007)
'Cursed is anyone who steals property from a neighbor by moving a boundary marker.' And all the people will reply, 'Amen.'

English Standard Version (©2001)
“‘Cursed be anyone who moves his neighbor’s landmark.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
'Cursed is he who moves his neighbor's boundary mark.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The one who moves his neighbor's boundary marker is cursed.' And all the people will say, 'Amen!'

International Standard Version (©2012)
"'Cursed is the one who moves his neighbor's boundary stone.' "Then all the people are to respond by saying, 'Amen!'

NET Bible (©2006)
Cursed is the one who moves his neighbor's boundary marker.' Then all the people will say, 'Amen!'

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
"Whoever moves his neighbor's boundary marker will be cursed." Then all the people will say amen.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Cursed be he that removes his neighbor's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.

American King James Version
Cursed be he that removes his neighbor's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.

American Standard Version
Cursed be he that removeth his neighbor's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmarks: and all the people shall say: Amen.

Darby Bible Translation
Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark! And all the people shall say, Amen.

English Revised Version
Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Webster's Bible Translation
Cursed be he that removeth his neighbor's landmark: and all the people shall say, Amen.

World English Bible
'Cursed is he who removes his neighbor's landmark.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

Young's Literal Translation
Cursed is he who is removing his neighbour's border, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

27:11-26 The six tribes appointed for blessing, were all children of the free women, for to such the promise belongs, Ga 4:31. Levi is here among the rest. Ministers should apply to themselves the blessing and curse they preach to others, and by faith set their own Amen to it. And they must not only allure people to their duty with the promises of a blessing, but awe them with the threatenings of a curse, by declaring that a curse would be upon those who do such things. To each of the curses the people were to say, Amen. It professed their faith, that these, and the like curses, were real declarations of the wrath of God against the ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, not one jot of which shall fall to the ground. It was acknowledging the equity of these curses. Those who do such things deserve to fall, and lie under the curse. Lest those who were guilty of other sins, not here mentioned, should think themselves safe from the curse, the last reaches all. Not only those who do the evil which the law forbids, but those also who omit the good which the law requires. Without the atoning blood of Christ, sinners can neither have communion with a holy God, nor do any thing acceptable to him; his righteous law condemns every one who, at any time, or in any thing, transgresses it. Under its awful curse we remain as transgressors, until the redemption of Christ is applied to our hearts. Wherever the grace of God brings salvation, it teaches the believer to deny ungodliness and wordly lusts, to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world, consenting to, and delighting in the words of God's law, after the inward man. In this holy walk, true peace and solid joy are to be found.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark,.... Removes it backward, and steals ground, as Jarchi explains it; this is commonly done secretly; see Deuteronomy 19:14,

and all the people shall say Amen; See Gill on Deuteronomy 27:15; See Gill on Deuteronomy 27:16.

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Curses Pronounced from Ebal
…16Cursed be he that sets light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen. 17Cursed be he that removes his neighbor's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen. 18Cursed be he that makes the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen. …

Deuteronomy 19:14 Do not move your neighbor's boundary stone set up by your predecessors in the inheritance you receive in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
Job 24:2 There are those who move boundary stones; they pasture flocks they have stolen.
Proverbs 22:28 Do not move an ancient boundary stone set up by your ancestors.
Hosea 5:10 Judah's leaders are like those who move boundary stones. I will pour out my wrath on them like a flood of water.