“You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. Neither shall you desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 5 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
The Decalogue's second giving repeats 'You shall not covet'; Paul's citation (7:7) matches both forms. Deuteronomy's expanded list ('your neighbor's wife... house... field') makes coveting the representative inward sin Paul exploits.
High confidenceAllusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'You shall not covet' stands behind the catalogue's singling out of pleonexia, which Ephesians equates with idolatry. Coherence is strong with the Decalogue's covetousness/idolatry juxtaposition; medium volume given the term's broad Hellenistic-Jewish moral usage.
Medium confidence