1 THESS. IV, 6. That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any
matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such as we also
have forewarned you and testified.
PROV. XVI, 11. A just weight and balance are the Lord's: all the
weights of the bag are his work.
HOSEA XII, 7. He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his
hand: he loveth to oppress.
8. And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out
substance: in all my labors they shall find none iniquity in me that
were sin.
5. PRECEPTS CONCERNING LANDED PROPERTY.
DEUT. XIX, 14. Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark, which
they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt
inherit in the land that the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it.
DEUT. XXVII, 17. Which may go out before them, and which may go in
before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in;
that the congregation of the Lord be not as sheep which have no
shepherd.
EX. XXII, 5. And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and
Aaron made proclamation, and said, To-morrow is a feast to the Lord.
6. And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt-offerings,
and brought peace-offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to
drink, and rose up to play.
JOB XXIV, 2. Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away
flocks, and feed thereof.
3. They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox
for a pledge.
PROV. XXII, 28. Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers
have set.
PROV. XXIII, 10. Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the
fields of the fatherless:
11. For their Redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
6. PRECEPTS _Concerning Things Found, Loaned, or Intrusted to Others_.
LEV. VI, 1. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
2. If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the Lord, and lie unto
his neighbor in that which was delivered him to keep, or in
fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his
neighbor;
3. Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and
sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning
therein:
4. Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he
shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he
hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or
the lost thing which he found,
5. Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even
restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more
thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of
his trespass-offering.
6. And he shall bring his trespass-offering unto the Lord, a ram
without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a
trespass-offering, unto the priest.
LEV. XXIV, 18. And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast
for beast.
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