Deuteronomy 5:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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.

Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife ... house and field. An alteration is here made in the words (see Exodus 20:1-26), but it is so slight - "wife" being put in the first clause, and "house" in the second-that it would not have been worth while noticing it, except that the interchange proves, contrary to the opinion of some eminent critics, that these two objects are included in one and the same commandment.

Deuteronomy 5:21

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.