Jon Collins
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So it begins with you.
All the pronouns in here are a second person masculine singular.
The you there is a single man.
Meaning that the first layer of audience presumes an ancient patriarchal and traditional society and arrangement.
Where the man is a patriarch, the head of a state and head of an extended family.
And he's going to have sons and daughters.
He's going to have male slaves, female slaves.
Yeah, that's the presumed setting.
So what's interesting is missing from this list that's going to come in another list that's similar to this later on is your wife.
Down in command number 10, where it says don't covet your neighbor's wife, that's the first on the list.
And then it's like his male slave, female slave, ox, donkey.
Well, but they can't have eight in the list, right?
My point is that the list has been trimmed so that it's precisely seven on the list.