Tenth Commandment

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Cross-references Parent Topic Ten Commandments Related Topics b Links to Additional Materials Desires and Attitudes

You must not long for anything that belongs to someone else.

• In all things, love for God and neighbor must come ahead of love for self.
• "Coveting" is a form of idolatry, and takes us back to the first command.
• As with the other commands, this command represents an entire "category" of attitudes and actions (though this command may have a greater emphasis on the attitudes).

Exodus 20	Deuteronomy 5
Exo 20:17 "You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's."	Deu 5:21 "Neither shall you covet your neighbor's wife; neither shall you desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's."

Scripture Pages that Link to Here

Exodus 20:1-21

The original giving of the commandments.

Numbers 11:1-9, 18-23, 31-34

The people's craving for meat is described as "lusting" - having wrong desires.

Deuteronomy 5:1-33

Restatement of the commands, just before entering the Promised Land.

Deuteronomy 7:1-26

Have nothing to do with the idols of the wicked (who you are to destroy)... don't even covet the silver or gold that is on their idols!

Micah 2:1-5

Mic 2:2 They [the rich and powerful] covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

Woe to such people (v. 1), because God will judge them (v. 3+).

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