Exodus 20:15 meaning and explanation

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The Ten Commandments are spoken by God to Israel at Mount Sinai after the exodus from Egypt, and this brief command belongs to the second table of the law, which governs how people treat one another. In its setting it protected the property and livelihood of neighbors in an agrarian society, and the Hebrew verb ganav covers stealing of many kinds, including theft by deception.

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