#10 - YOU SHALL NOT COVET! " One is forbidden to desire and plan how
one may obtain that which God has given to another.
Maimonides makes a distinction in codifying the laws between
the instruction given here in Exodus (You shall not covet)
and that given in Deuteronomy (You shall not desire),
according to which one does not violate the Exodus
commandment unless there is a physical action associated
with the desire, even if this is legally purchasing an
envied object."
The Ten Commandments, or Decalogue, are a list of religious and moral imperatives that according to religious tradition, were written by God and given to Moses on Mount Sinai in the form of two stone tablets. They feature prominently in Judaism and Christianity. In Biblical Hebrew language, the commandments are termed and in Rabbinical Hebrew (translit. Aseret ha-Dibrot), both translatable as "the ten statements." The name "Decalogue" is derived from the Greek name or "dekalogos"
("ten statements") found in the Septuagint (Exodus 34:28,
Deuteronomy 10:4), which is the Greek translation of the Hebrew
name.
The phrase "Ten Commandments" generally refers to the very similar passages in Exodus 20:2?17 and Deuteronomy 5:6?21. Some distinguish between this "Ethical Decalogue" and a series of ten commandments in Exodus 34 that are
labeled the "Ritual Decalogue."
The commandments passage in Exodus contains more than ten imperative statements,
totaling fourteen or fifteen in all. However, the Bible itself
assigns the count of "Ten," using the Hebrew phrase Various religions divide these statements among the Commandments in different ways, and may also translate the Commandments differently.
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