Saying 5

Do not move an ancient boundary stone
    set up by your ancestors.

Proverbs 22:28

Proverbs 23:10 also contains this prohibition. The original law behind this saying is in 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.” It was one of the twelve special curses to be pronounced from Mt. Ebal: “Cursed is anyone who moves their neighbor’s boundary stone.” Then the people all say, “Amen” (Deuteronomy 27:17). This would be like removing steel stakes or buried rocks of surveys today. It was even worse then because the official description of a property line is recorded at the courthouse today while in Bible days the landmark was all there was. Effectively, someone who does this is stealing his neighbor’s land.