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"Neither shall you covet your neighbor`s wife; neither shall you desire your neighbor`s house, his field, or his man-servant, or his maid-servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor`s."
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A Law for the Land
Commentators explain that this version of the tenth commandment adds the phrase "his field." This is because Moses was addressing a people about to enter Canaan and become landowners, making the law immediately relevant to their new context. This shows how God's timeless principles are applied to specific life situations.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Compare Exodus 20 and notes.
Moses here adopts the Ten Words as a ground from which he may proceed to reprove, warn, and exhort; and repeats…
19th Century
Anglican
His field. These words are not found in Exodus 20:17. The children of Israel had now become, or were just about to become…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Neither shall you desire your neighbour's wife
Here a neighbour's wife is put before his house, different from ([R…
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There is some variation here from Exodus 20, similar to the variation between the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6 and Luke 11. It is more necessary that…
