What exactly did the 7th commandment mean?
I'm just wondering if this question meant idol worship, or at the time it was written about having more than one wife?
Exodus 20:4
ESV - 4 You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
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Gary Butler
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Tim Maas
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By my understanding, although the Bible does use adultery in multiple passages (other than the Ten Commandments) as a symbolic metaphor for the sin of worshipping idols or other false gods, the seventh commandment (as given in Exodus 20:14) refers only and specifically to unfaithfulness on the part of married human couples. (And, as Jesus later said in Matthew 5:27-28, God's view of such adultery includes not only physical actions, but also lusting after someone who is not your spouse.)
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