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Deuteronomy describes a curse on anyone who moves a neighbor’s boundary marker, ending with "Amen". Jubilees expands that command to cover the entire earth, where Noah’s sons curse whoever seizes land outside his lot and they also answer, "Amen".
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Deuteronomy 27:17
Hebrew Bible
16 ‘Cursed is the one who disrespects his father and mother.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’ 17 ‘Cursed is the one who moves his neighbor’s boundary marker.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’ 18 ‘Cursed is the one who misleads a blind person on the road.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’ 19 ‘Cursed is the one who perverts justice for the resident foreigner, the orphan, and the widow.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
Jubilees 9:14
Pseudepigrapha
13 For Tiras there emerged as the seventh share the four large islands within the sea which reach Ham's share. The islands of Kamaturi emerged by lot for Arpachshad's children as his inheritance. 14 In this way Noah's sons divided the earth for their sons in front of their father Noah. He made them swear by oath to curse each and every one who wanted to occupy the share which did not emerge by his lot. 15 All of them said: 'So be it'! So be it for them and their children until eternity during their generations until the day of judgment on which the Lord God will punish them with the sword and fire because of all the evil impurity of their errors by which they have filled the earth with wickedness, impurity, fornication, and sin.
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Notes and References
... On the evil of violating ancestral boundaries, see Deuteronomy 19:14; 27:17; Damascus Document V, 20–21; compare 1 Kings 21:3. Compare the division in Jubilees, above, with the Greek division of the cosmos among chief deities. ...
Keener, Craig S.
Acts: An Exegetical Commentary, Volume 3: 15:1–23:35
(p. on Acts 17:26) Baker Academic, 2014
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