ANSWER TO SPIRITUAL GEMS AUGUST 16-22
ANSWER TO SPIRITUAL GEMS AUGUST 16-22 Deut 27:17. Why did the Law prohibit the movement of the signs that marked the neighbor's limits? (it-1 1160). Since landowners generally depended on the produce of their land, moving back a milestone would mean depriving someone else of part of their livelihood. This action amounted to theft, and this is how it was seen in ancient times. However, there were unscrupulous people who committed such abuses, and in the days of Hosea the princes of Judah were likened to those who were moving back a boundary. ADDITIONAL COMMENTS Jehovah's law said that whoever moved back "the landmark or mark of his fellow man" was cursed. The reason was because landowners in general depended on the produce of their land, and for someone to move back a sign would mean depriving this person of part of their means of subsistence. This action amounted to theft, so Jehovah forbade them to move Because moving the signs would be vi...