Deuteronomy 5:21

21 "Never desire to take your neighbor's wife away from him. "Never long for your neighbor's household, his field, his male or female slave, his ox, his donkey, or anything else that belongs to him."

Deuteronomy 5:21 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 5:21

Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife
Here a neighbour's wife is put before his house, different from ( Exodus 20:17 ) and "his field" is added, which with what follows take in everything that is a man's property; and which is not to be desired or coveted in an unlawful manner by another, and much less should any means be made use of to deprive him of it; but "lust" is the thing intended and prohibited, be it after what it may, which is another man's: see ( Matthew 5:28 ) ( Romans 7:7 ) , of a man's field, see ( Isaiah 5:8 ) ( Micah 2:2 ) .

Deuteronomy 5:21 In-Context

19 "Never steal.

20 "Never avoid the truth when you testify about your neighbor.

21 "Never desire to take your neighbor's wife away from him. "Never long for your neighbor's household, his field, his male or female slave, his ox, his donkey, or anything else that belongs to him."

22 These are the commandments the LORD spoke to your whole assembly on the mountain. He spoke in a loud voice from the fire, the cloud, and the gloomy darkness. Then he stopped speaking. He wrote the commandments on two stone tablets and gave them to me.

23 But when you heard the voice coming from the darkness and saw the mountain blazing with fire, all the leaders and heads of your tribes came to me.