Like a lot of things in the Bible, the Ten Commandments get it all slightly wrong. I don’t mean the “Thou shalt not kill” material — I’m basically OK with that. It’s the smaller things that, in my view, need an editorial refresh.

For instance, the 10th Commandment gets it all backward. “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house,” it says, and then goes on to get specific: “You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”