hello it's time for the weekly hebrew so we're going to do two commandments uh today as well by most protestant reckoning uh commandments eight and nine um so let's begin lo tignov not big nose but tignov low tignov what does this mean well low you should know how low can you go um not low means not i cannot go very low not anymore uh so anyway lo tiglo tignov so not you will steal so tignov uh is imperfect so the word is uh uh again there's a nose theme coming out here no not really so ganav means to steal and so with a performative on the front it's imperfect tense which is sometimes translated as you will as a future that's that's a vast vast mis you know that's miss uh it's oversimplification at the very least the imperfect often does have a sense of incompleteness but it's second masculine singular but women can't steal either that means it's a you addressing a you singular man but again it means women too um it is a call stem or a g basic stem grundstom um so nothing nothing done to it it's the basic meaning you will not steal of course um this is a basic value right um i should not go to my neighbor's house and take stuff right um we should not i mean i mean i've heard some people make this into um you know the mother of all capitalism um obviously they did believe in stuff being belonging to people i mean that is an assumption of this text of course um if you come in here and take my phone you know you have stolen from me and that is something this um but you don't don't take it to uh systemic structures of government it's not it's not addressing that it's addressing going into your neighbor's um house and taking his sheep you know that kind of thing um but basic do not steal all right enough on that next one [Music] you will not answer anna means to answer and again this is imperfect it has stuff on the front second masculine singular a you singular male although women don't do this either you will not answer um probably with this this is a your uh against against your raw your neighbor um so you will not answer against your neighbor um usually on these kinds of uh situations where you have a a a pronoun on the end your uh you you accent the second to last syllable usually so uh you will not answer against your neighbor aid a witness shecker a shock here a false witness you will not bear false witness against your neighbor this is a saluk accent which is often the accent in the last word of a verse and then this is called a soph pasuk it basically says this verse is over now okay so you will not uh bear false witness against your neighbor this is talking about a legal context this is not about lying in general although i would say there are other parts of the bible where we can say the truth is definitely god's if you want to say okay which which picture do i put truth under do i put it under god or under the devil okay truth goes under god right lying goes under devil that's a that's um the basic alignment of truth and error however this this commandment is not about um lying about you know whether you ate your grilled cheese sandwich um again truth is definitely what god uh supports in scripture plenty of verses we could bring out about being truthful uh but this is talking about a legal context where um because you realize they didn't have videotape um wit eyewitness testimony was very important you know two or three witnesses uh on two or three witnesses something shall be established so if if you were called to witness and you gave a false witness that's really bad you're really messing somebody up uh maybe even to death you know could be um this past week uh within the last seven days i forget which day it was it was the anniversary of the uh the murder of emmett till in mississippi this was a young black man who went from chicago down to visit some family in mississippi according to the story he uh he was alleged to have flirted with a white woman in a store and her husband and somebody else hunt him down and killed him now she she later indicated uh in like 2007 that she had made up some things uh i think like about him touching her things like that she had borne false witness against him and he was murdered as a result of it a false witness can be um really bad especially uh in lawless situations and and let's let's be frank in the south uh prior to um uh civil rights and so forth and not i mean it hasn't entirely stopped in the world um for sure but um a false witness there was a lawless element with regard to race in the south very strong wildest element um in the late 1800s and uh the first half of the 20th century and so in lawless in societies where they don't have a strong legal system witness testimony is is very important and so bearing false witness is very very serious it can get somebody killed who's actually innocent and so um you will not bear false witness against your neighbor well this has been um two commandments today commandment eight and nine and so we will finish up lord willing the ten commandments next week with the tenth commandment uh or in the catholic lutheran uh and jewish reckoning the ninth and tenth commandment next week this has been commandments eight and nine