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Deuteronomy 5:21 KJV
Deuteronomy · chapter 5 · verse 21
Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour’s.Deuteronomy 5:21 · King James Version
Deuteronomy 5:21 in context
19Neither shalt thou steal.
20Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.
21Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
22These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.
23And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;
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Key words (Strong's)
- neighbour'srêaʻan associateH7453 →
- maidservantʼâmâha maidservant or female slaveH519 →
- manservantʻebeda servantH5650 →
- desirechâmadto delight inH2530 →
- covetʼâvâhto wish forH183 →
- housebayitha houseH1004 →
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Here is the repetition of the ten commandments, in which observe, 1. Though they had been spoken before, and written, yet they are again rehearsed; for precept must be upon precept, and line upon line, and all little enough to keep the word of God in our minds and to preserve and renew the impressions of it.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 6-22