Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor's wife and defile yourself with her. The prohibition on adultery — sexual relations with a neighbor's wife — is the covenant's sexual ethic applied to the community's relational structure. The defile yourself framing communicates that the adultery is not only a violation of the neighbor's marital rights but a self-contaminating act. The Seventh Commandment (Exodus 20:14) prohibits adultery as a brief statement; Leviticus 18:20 connects the prohibition to the self-defilement that adultery produces.

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