A BOUNDARY — and, by extension, the territory a boundary encloses, so the same noun is both the line and the land inside it. Deuteronomy 19:3 uses the second sense (divide in three the territory of your land) and 19:14 the first, in the Torah’s only law about a landmark. ⭐ That verse also makes a verb out of it: gevul re’akha asher GAVLU rishonim, your neighbour’s boundary which the first ones bounded. Ten of the thirteen shelf witnesses replace the cognate verb with an unrelated one of placing; two (the NWT 1984 and its 2013 revision) keep an echo by writing ‘the ancestors set the boundaries’ beside ‘boundary mark’; the TLB drops the clause. ⚠ Lo tassig, the prohibition itself, stands in one verse of the Hebrew Bible. Elsewhere the idea is a curse (Deuteronomy 27:17, now on these pages: cursed is he who moves back his neighbour’s boundary), a proverb (Proverbs 22:28 and 23:10, both of which supply your fathers where Deuteronomy says only the first ones), a simile for princes (Hosea 5:10) and a complaint (Job 24:2) — never again a statute. → first discussed at Deut 19:14