Exodus 20:17
You do not desire the house of your neighbor, you do not desire the wife of your neighbor, or his manservant, or his handmaid, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything which [is] your neighbor’s.”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
16You do not answer [with] a false testimony against your neighbor.
Cross References
Genesis 3:6And the woman sees that the tree [is] good for food, and that it [is] pleasant to the eyes, and the tree is desirable to make [one] wise, and she takes from its fruit and eats, and also gives [some] to her husband with her, and he eats;
Genesis 34:23their livestock, and their substance, and all their beasts—are they not ours? Only let us consent to them, and they dwell with us.”
1 Samuel 15:19and why have you not listened to the voice of YHWH—and fly to the spoil, and do evil in the eyes of YHWH?”
Job 31:1“I made a covenant for my eyes, || And how do I attend to a virgin?
Psalms 10:3Because the wicked has boasted || Of the desire of his soul, || And he has blessed a dishonest gainer, || He has despised YHWH.
Proverbs 4:23Above every charge keep your heart, || For out of it [are] the outgoings of life.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 20:13-18
12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. 13 Thou shalt not kill. 14 Thou shalt not commit adultery. 15 Thou shalt not steal. 16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. 17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. We have here the laws of the second table, as they are commonly… Read the whole commentary →