Deuteronomy 5:21

21 Thou shalt not luste after thi neghbours wife: thou shat not couet thi neyghbours housse, felde, seruaunte, mayde, oxe, asse nor ought that is thi neghbours.

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 Thou shalt not steale.

20 Thou shalt not beare false witnesse agenst thy neghboure,

21 Thou shalt not luste after thi neghbours wife: thou shat not couet thi neyghbours housse, felde, seruaunte, mayde, oxe, asse nor ought that is thi neghbours.

22 These wordes the Lorde spake vnto al youre multitude in the mount out of the fyre, cloude and darcknesse, with a loude voyce and added nomoare there to, and wrote them in .ij. tables of stone and delyuered them vnto me.

23 But as soone as ye herde the voyce out off the darcknesse and sawe the hill burne with fyre, ye came vnto me all the heedes of youre tribes and youre elders: