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John Gill's Exposition on Proverbs 23:10

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Remove not the old landmark, etc.] (See Gill on “<202228>Proverbs 22:28”); and enter not into the fields of the fatherless; to carry off the increase of them, to reap their wheat, or mow their grass, or turn in cattle to eat it; or to encroach upon them, take in any part of them, or join the whole to their own; for if there is a woe to them that lay field to field, much more to them that enter into and take the fields of the fatherless, and join them to their own, (<230508>Isaiah 5:8).
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