The Ten Commandments/You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor

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You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor is a prohibition or inhibition of the emotions You shall not submit to envy, nor to greed nor to lust. These are just some of the seven deadly sins.

Note:The original (King James Version) English used the now obsolete second person singular «thou» which was only used in very intimate situations as say a parent to a child (or God the Father to the Children of Israel). In grammar «thou shalt» and «thy» was correct because the case should match, just as «I am» is more correct than «I be». Similarly the male prefix «He/his» was then gender neutral so «he/she» would have been redundant.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house; thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor’s

Exodus 20:17