17 “You must not desire* your fellowman’s house. You must not desire your fellowman’s wife,+ nor his slave man nor his slave girl nor his bull nor his ass nor anything that belongs to your fellowman.”*+

4 Consequently Aʹhab came into his house, sullen and dejected over the word that Naʹboth the Jezʹre·el·ite had spoken to him, when he said: “I shall not give you the hereditary possession of my forefathers.” Then he lay down upon his couch and kept his face turned,+ and he did not eat bread.

15 Then he said to them: “Keep YOUR eyes open and guard against every sort of covetousness,+ because even when a person has an abundance his life does not result from the things he possesses.”+

7 What, then, shall we say? Is the Law sin?+ Never may that become so! Really I would not have come to know sin+ if it had not been for the Law; and, for example, I would not have known covetousness+ if the Law had not said: “You must* not covet.”+