Tool Beta
Is It Actually in the Bible?
Phrases people quote as Scripture. The real verse, or the honest answer that there is not one.
"Remove not the ancient landmark" means don't steal or take away the boundary marker your fathers set
"Remove" meant move or shift its position, not take it away entirely.
Proverbs 22:28, in every translation this tool compares.
Proverbs 22:28 warns, "Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set." The concern isn't someone stealing a boundary stone outright; it's someone quietly nudging it a few feet to encroach on a neighbor's field, an ancient form of property fraud. "Remove" comes from Latin "removere," literally "move back" or "move away," a fairly neutral verb about changing a thing's location.
Modern colloquial English has pushed "remove" toward meaning "take away and eliminate entirely" ("remove the stain," "remove him from office"), which changes the crime being described from quietly shifting a marker to outright theft of it.
