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Tenth Commandment

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noun

  1. “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's”: tenth of the Ten Commandments.


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Shows further how, in a Great Temple, I broke the Tenth Commandment in Fifty-three Places and bowed down before Kano and a Carpenter.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling

"There must be a way of not breaking the Tenth Commandment."

From The Stokesley Secret by Charlotte Mary Yonge

A. The Tenth Commandment is: Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods.

From Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine by Thomas L. Kinkead

A. The Tenth Commandment forbids all desires to take or keep wrongfully what belongs to another.

From Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine by Thomas L. Kinkead

The duty of the Tenth Commandment is righteousness, to let every one possess his own; the contrary is to be miserable and unjust.

From Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther by Captain Henry Bell

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