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You shall not covet your neighbours house. You shall not covet your neighbour’s wife, all his manservant all maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbour. Exodus 20: 17

Pilate perceived that it was out of envy that the chief priests had delivered Jesus up. Mark 15:10

‘You shall not covet’ is the final one of the ten commandments. It tends not to get much publicity, like the Sabbath command. What does covet mean? An online dictionary defines it as ‘to want to possess so...

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