Jon Collins

And then number 10, then having brought up the word neighbor is going to be you will not desire your neighbor's house.

or your neighbor's wife or and it gives a list of all these things that belong to your neighbor so yeah six through ten are all bound together very clearly and specifically about how you relate to your neighbor and this one number nine specifically is bearing false witness against you will not bear false witness against your neighbor

So we're talking here about whether or not I live in my community as someone who values the truth and protect the truth and help prevent faults.

representation of the truth in my community.

That matters.

That's a part of neighborly flourishing.

So maybe the easiest way in is how to translate this command.

It's really interesting.

So there are

Other words for lie, the main one in Hebrew is kazav, it's the verb.

That would be more general.

Don't lie.

Why isn't it just... Don't tell lies.

Yeah, lo tixov, don't lie.

But instead it's bearing false witness, which is a specific kind of lying.

The word bear witness actually points to a really specific social situation, namely standing in a court before judges or maybe a jury.

So here in the command, it's ta'aneh.

It's from the Hebrew verb anah, which just means to like answer or respond.

Like it's a real common phrase in Hebrew to say, and he answered saying, and then to begin a quote.

Yeah.