Coveting things that belong to someone else, or being jealous of someone, is obviously not a good attitude. The commandment not to covet is repeated twice, in Ex.20:17 and Deut.5:21, to teach us that there is a special prohibition against trying to induce the owner to give up or sell the coveted property. Maimonides, in his treatment of the laws of robbery and loss, adds that coveting is forbidden because it may lead to robbery, as it says "they coveted fields and stole [them]" (Micah 2:2).
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