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21 “‘You are not to desire[a] your neighbor’s wife nor crave your neighbor’s house,[b] his fields, his male and female servants, his ox, his donkey, nor anything else that pertains to your neighbor.’”

Moses Recalls God’s Warnings

22 “The Lord declared these commands in a loud voice to your entire assembly on the mountain from out of the fire[c] and dark clouds,[d] and nothing more was added. He inscribed them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me. 23 When you heard the voice from the darkness while the mountain was blazing, all the leaders and elders of your tribes came to me and said:

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 5:21 Lit. to covet; i.e. to set your heart on
  2. Deuteronomy 5:21 Or neighbor’s family dynasty
  3. Deuteronomy 5:22 LXX Sam Pentateuch read dark; cf. Deut 4:11
  4. Deuteronomy 5:22 Lit. cloud and thick darkness