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15You shall not steal. 16 You shall not bear<br />
FALSE witness against your<br />
neighbor.17You shall not covet your<br />
neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your<br />
neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or<br />
maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or<br />
anything that belongs to your neighbor.…<br />
Let’s break down verses 15 & 16. The slave<br />
owners and slave traders would see a black<br />
man walking, they would capture ( steal him<br />
from his family) the black man. Then they<br />
would falsely accuse him of owing him<br />
money. He would tell the black man, you<br />
have to work for me until you pay me back.<br />
That is stealing and bearing false witness.<br />
Let us go on to verse 17<br />
The slave owners and traders would take<br />
everything that belongs to that black man.<br />
This includes his wife and his daughter to