Exodus 20: 15: “Thou shalt not steal.”
The first thing that we discover about stealing is that it is something that happens secretly (see Gen 31: 27, “Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?”) In that case Jacob wanted to leave his father in law but wanted to do so without a fuss so he away shearing sheep. The next thing that we learn about stealing is that it involves taking something that doesn’t belong to me (see Gen 44: 8, “Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal out of thy lord’s house silver or gold?”) The last thing that we find out about stealing in the Bible is that it is not proper for Christians to steal (see Eph 4: 28, “Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.”) This commandment isn’t really hard, if we have to take something secretly or something that doesn’t belong to us then we should not do that.
(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
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