To DESIRE, covet — desire that reaches toward a thing. It is what the tree was at Genesis 3:6 ('desirable to make one wise') and what Achan does at Joshua 7:21 before he takes. ⚠ Whether it names an inward state or the beginning of an action is genuinely argued, and it matters: the Catholic and Lutheran numbering has to SPLIT Exodus 20:13 in two to reach ten commandments, dividing the neighbour's wife from his household — and Deuteronomy 5:17 (already on these pages) — which English Bibles number 5:21 — lists them in the opposite order using a different second verb. ⭐ That second verb is tit’avveh, and the same letters spell ta’ah, the surveyor’s verb that marks out the borders of Canaan at Numbers 34:7-10 — so the land Israel is about to take is measured with the letters that forbid wanting a neighbour’s field. Separate roots, per the lexicons; the same letters, per the page. → first discussed at Exod 20:13