Exodus 20:15
New International Version
“You shall not steal.

New Living Translation
“You must not steal.

English Standard Version
“You shall not steal.

Berean Standard Bible
You shall not steal.

King James Bible
Thou shalt not steal.

New King James Version
“You shall not steal.

New American Standard Bible
“You shall not steal.

NASB 1995
“You shall not steal.

NASB 1977
“You shall not steal.

Legacy Standard Bible
“You shall not steal.

Amplified Bible
“You shall not steal [secretly, openly, fraudulently, or through carelessness].

Christian Standard Bible
Do not steal.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Do not steal.

American Standard Version
Thou shalt not steal.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
You shall not steal.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Thou shalt not steal.

Contemporary English Version
Do not steal.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt not steal.

English Revised Version
Thou shalt not steal.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Never steal.

Good News Translation
"Do not steal.

International Standard Version
"You are not to steal.

JPS Tanakh 1917


Literal Standard Version
You do not steal.

Majority Standard Bible
You shall not steal.

New American Bible
You shall not steal.

NET Bible
"You shall not steal.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall not steal.

New Heart English Bible
"Do not steal.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou shalt not steal.

World English Bible
“You shall not steal.

Young's Literal Translation
'Thou dost not steal.

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Context
The Ten Commandments
14You shall not commit adultery. 15You shall not steal. 16You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.…

Cross References
Matthew 19:18
"Which ones?" the man asked. Jesus answered, "'Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness,

Romans 13:9
The commandments "Do not commit adultery," "Do not murder," "Do not steal," "Do not covet," and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: "Love your neighbor as yourself."

Exodus 21:16
Whoever kidnaps another man must be put to death, whether he sells him or the man is found in his possession.

Leviticus 19:11
You must not steal. You must not lie or deceive one another.

Leviticus 19:13
You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.

Deuteronomy 5:19
You shall not steal.

Zechariah 5:3
Then he told me, "This is the curse that is going out over the face of all the land, for according to one side of the scroll, every thief will be removed; and according to the other side, every perjurer will be removed.


Treasury of Scripture

You shall not steal.

Exodus 21:16
And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

Leviticus 6:1-7
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, …

Leviticus 19:11,13,35-37
Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another…

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(15) Thou shalt not steal.--Our third duty towards our neighbour is to respect his right to his property. The framers of Utopias, both ancient and modern, have imagined communities in which private property should not exist. But such a condition of things has never yet been realised in practice. In the laws of all known States private property has been recognised, and social order has been, in a great measure, based upon it. Here, again, law has but embodied natural instinct. The savage who hammers out a flint knife by repeated blows with a pebble, labouring long, and undergoing pain in the process, feels that the implement which he has made is his own, and that his right to it is indisputable. If he is deprived of it by force or fraud, he is wronged. The eighth commandment forbids this wrong, and requires us to respect the property of others no less than their person and their domestic peace and honour.

Verse 15. - Thou shalt not steal. By these words the right of property received formal acknowledgment, and a protest was made by anticipation against the maxim of modern socialists - "La propriete, c'est le vol." Instinctively man feels that some things become his, especially by toil expended on them, and that, by parity of reasoning, some things become his neighbour's. Our third duty towards our neighbour is to respect his rights in these. Society, in every community that has hitherto existed, has recognised private pro-petty; and social order may be said to be built upon it. Government exists mainly for the security of men's lives and properties; and anarchy would supervene if either could be with impunity attacked. Theft has always been punished in every state; and even the Spartan youth was not acquitted of blame unless he could plead that the State had stopped his supplies of food, and bid him forage for himself.

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Hebrew
You shall not
לֹ֣֖א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

steal.
תִּֿגְנֹֽ֔ב׃ (tḡə·nōḇ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 1589: To thieve, to deceive


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