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The Tenth Commandment says, "You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's."


Let's just say that the author of the Book of Exodus considered wives to be the property of their husbands, in the same way as houses, slaves (euphemistically translated as servants), oxen and donkeys. Whether he was speaking for God is a matter of faith. This was written at a time when houses could take pride of place in the list and when Israelites were settled and could have slaves - in other words long after the establishment of Israel. It was not something handed down by God while they wandered in the desert.

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