10. Do Not Covet|5 Minute Video

The One Thought You Should Never Have

Because to covet, to desire what belongs to someone else, is the root of the preceding 4 rules and frequently leads to evil. Before somebody murders, steals, lies, or commits infidelity, the desire to take what is appropriately someone else’s generally comes.

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Script:

In the Ten Commandments, Commandments Six, Seven, Eight, and Nine are the ones that forbid acts of evil– murder, infidelity, stealing, and perjury. And after that there is one commandment that forbids the thing that causes murder, infidelity, stealing, and perjury. Which one is it? It’s the last of the Ten: Do not covet anything that comes from others– not their partner, their house, their servants, their animals, or any of their home.

In order to understand this rule, and its special significance, the very first thing to understand is that this is the only one of the Ten Commandments that legislates idea. All the other Commandments legislate habits. In fact, of the 613 laws in the Five Books of Moses, virtually none restrict thought.

Or, to put it another method, longing for is what leads to violating the preceding 4 rules– the ones versus murder, adultery, taking, and perjury. And yearning for is obviously the factor for infidelity– wanting the spouse of another individual. As for perjury– or “bearing incorrect witness” in the language of the Ten Commandments – that is done in order to cover up all these other crimes that are caused by longing for.

In order to understand why coveting is the one thought that is forbidden in the Ten Commandments and one of the only thoughts prohibited in the entire Hebrew Bible, we require to understand what wishing for ways – and, equally crucial, what it does not imply.

To long for is much more than “to want.” The Hebrew verb, lachmod indicates to wish to the point of looking for to remove and own– something that belongs to another person. Note that there are 2 operative components here: “seeking to own,” and “belongs to another individual.” “Seeking to own” does not indicate simply coveting or, when it comes to your neighbor’s spouse, just lusting after. Neither envy nor desire is prohibited in the Ten Commandments. Unchecked envy and lust can definitely lead to bad things, and they can both be emotionally and mentally devastating, but neither one is prohibited in the Ten Commandments. Why? Due to the fact that neither is the exact same as coveting. It is wishing for that almost inevitably causes stealing, to adultery, and sometimes even to murder.

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Because to yearn for, to desire what belongs to somebody else, is the root of the preceding four rules and typically leads to evil. It’s the last of the Ten: Do not wish for anything that belongs to others– not their partner, their home, their servants, their animals, or any of their residential or commercial property.

Or, to put it another method, yearning for is what leads to breaking the preceding four commandments– the ones versus murder, infidelity, taking, and perjury. As for perjury– or “bearing incorrect witness” in the language of the Ten Commandments – that is done in order to cover up all these other criminal offenses that are caused by coveting.

It is coveting that almost undoubtedly leads to stealing, to infidelity, and often even to murder.