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Exodus 20:17 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" “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.” "

Exodus 20:17

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15 “You shall not steal.

16 “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

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.”

18 All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance.

19 They said to Moses, “Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; but don’t let God speak with us, lest we die.”

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Related Verses

Deuteronomy 5:21

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"“You shall not 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.”"

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Leviticus 18:20

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"“‘You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife, and defile yourself with her."

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Leviticus 19:13

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"“‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. “‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning."

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Zechariah 8:17

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"and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath; for all these are things that I hate,” says the LORD."

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Deuteronomy 19:14

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"You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess."

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Jeremiah 16:2

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"“You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place.”"

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Exodus 20:1

"God spoke all these words, saying,"

Exodus 20:2

"“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage."

Exodus 20:3

"“You shall have no other gods before me."

Exodus 20:4

"“You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:"

Exodus 20:5

"you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,"

Exodus 20:6

"and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments."

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