Then, consider the unique tenth commandment, forbidding covetousness. Here is a law that no human could enforce. Each Israelite was accountable to his God, Jehovah, who searched the individual’s heart to find out his motives.​—Exodus 20:17; 1 Samuel 16:7; Jeremiah 17:10.

The (Tenth) commandment, against covetousness, reminds us that Jehovah requires that our intentions always be upright in his eyes.​—Proverbs 21:2.