Tim Mackie
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Yeah.
Yeah.
So now we've got two verbs.
Don't desire and don't crave.
Don't chamad and don't hinaveh.
So let's talk about these words.
These are the key words here.
What does it mean?
So I've chosen to go away from covet, the old English word, and embrace the common English words desire and crave.
I'm down with that.
Why?
Okay.
Both chamad and hitavet, here's what they have in common.
They're describing the act of perceiving something.
And when you perceive it or see it, encounter it, it generates this strong internal impulse.
to possess it.
So there's a couple classic examples.
The story of a guy named Achan in the book of Joshua, or Achan, so we say his name in English.
Achan, who's an Israelite, they just overcame the walls of Jericho by blowing their trumpets, and God brought the walls down.
And he saw, he says, a beautiful robe from Babylon.