Exodus 20:17
Hebrew Bible
15 “You shall not steal. 16 “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. 17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that belongs to your neighbor.” 18 All the people were seeing the thundering and the lightning, and heard the sound of the horn, and saw the mountain smoking—and when the people saw it they trembled with fear and kept their distance. 19 They said to Moses, “You speak to us and we will listen, but do not let God speak with us, lest we die.”
Date: 5th Century B.C.E. (Final composition) (based on scholarly estimates)
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Proverbs 6:26
Hebrew Bible
24 by keeping you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the loose woman. 25 Do not lust in your heart for her beauty, and do not let her captivate you with her alluring eyes; 26 for on account of a prostitute one is brought down to a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man preys on your precious life. 27 Can a man hold fire against his chest without burning his clothes? 28 Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet?
Date: 6th-3rd Centuries B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... Proverbs 6:16-35 contains parallels with the Shema and the Decalogue, the latter of which is our current focus ... This Decalogical intertext includes counterparts to “honor your father and your mother” (Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16; compare Proverbs 6:20), “you shall not commit adultery” (Exodus 20:14; Deuteronomy 5:18; compare Proverbs 6:32), “you shall not steal” (Exodus 20:15; Deuteronomy 5:19; compare Proverbs 6:30–31), and “you shall not covet” (Exodus 20:17; Deuteronomy 5:21; compare Proverbs 6:25). This passage is, however, closer to V’s version than the canonical ones in four distinct ways. First, the word “wealth” appears here in the context of the sin of theft (6:31), unlike the Decalogues of Exodus or Deuteronomy, but precisely as in V (E 3:8) ... Second, the verb דמח here relates specifically to lusting after a person (6:25), rather than asexual coveting. This stands in contrast to the Exodus version, where דמח applies to inanimate objects (Exodus 20:17), but it is in perfect consonance with V ..."
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