How the Adulterer Breaks All Ten Commandments at Once

Concerning I am [the LORD your God]: for anyone who commits adultery with the wife of his fellow is as one who denies the Holy One, blessed be He, as it is said, "They have denied the LORD and said, 'It is not He'" (Jeremiah 5:12). You shall have no [other gods]: for it is written concerning Him, "For [I] the LORD your God am a jealous God" (Deuteronomy 5:9). And twice it is said concerning the suspected adulteress (sotah), "and a spirit of jealousy passes over him, and he is jealous of his wife" (Numbers 5:14). And why twice? Because he is jealous for the Holy One, blessed be He, and for her husband, as it is said, "for it is a meal-offering of jealousies" (Numbers 5:15) — that it is two jealousies. You shall not take [the name of] the LORD your God [in vain]: for he commits adultery and swears falsely that he did not do it. Honor your father: for when one commits adultery with the suspected wife, she becomes pregnant from him, and she says to her husband, "I am pregnant from you." And the fetus grows, and it honors the husband, supposing that he is its father, though he is not its father; and it passes through the marketplace and despises the adulterer, supposing that he is not its father. You shall not murder: the adulterer enters on the condition that, if he is caught, he will either kill or be killed. You shall not commit adultery: for certainly he commits adultery. You shall not steal: for he steals the spring of his fellow, and thus it says, "Stolen waters are sweet" (Proverbs 9:17). You shall not bear [false witness] against your neighbor: for she bears false witness [to her husband] and says, "I am pregnant from you." You shall not covet your neighbor's house, and you shall not covet your neighbor's wife: for anyone who covets the wife of his fellow and commits adultery with her covets everything that belongs to his fellow. How so? When he commits adultery with her and goes on his way, and she bears a child from him, her husband supposes that it came from himself. When he comes to depart from the world, he supposes that this son is his, and he writes him a testament of all his property, and bequeaths to him all that he has, not knowing that he is not his son. It turns out that the adulterer covets all that belongs to his fellow,