Monday, February 28, 2011

CC--10th Commandment: What does it say?


Text in Exodus 20:17
17"You shall not covet (Kawmad, to delight in) your neighbor's house; you shall not covet (Kawmad, to delight in) your neighbor's wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor."

Text in Deuteronomy 5:21
21'You shall not covet (Kawmad, to delight in) your neighbor's wife, and you shall not desire (awvaw, to strongly lust for, wish for) your neighbor's house, his field or his male servant or his female servant, his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.'

--Don’t set your heart upon, desire, covet, lust after, wish for, imagine yourself having, scheme to get, or consider that you need in order to be happy anything that is forbidden to you because it already belongs to your neighbor.
--There are at least two parts here: wanting what you don’t have and wanting what already does belong to someone.

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