We see huge different between goods and wives. One is about greed; the other sexual immorality and family. By lumping the two commandments, you only address greed.
Whoa now. I’m not the one who lumped them together; the original text says “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”, and “You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not set your desire on your neighbor’s house or land, his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
Both uses refer to “anything that belongs to your neighbor”. Paul refers to a married couple having dominion over the body of the other, which is (most likely) what’s being referred to here. Somehow I doubt that someone looks at his neighbor’s wife and goes, “Man, I’d love to let her clean my house!”
You are quite misleading, I think. Jesus did not number the commandment and at the most it’s only your presumption. Jesus defining adultery hardly affecting the prohibition on coveting wife though it’s related. Similarly, the worshipping of other God and idols - what’s the difference? And yet they are two commandments for you.
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus clarified murder to include contempt and insult toward someone. He clarified adultery to include marriage after divorce. Neither insult nor divorce is prohibited in the commandments. He also clarified adultery to include looking lustfully at a woman. But now we’d be splitting hairs over the difference between lusting and coveting; to me it would be like the difference between a stare and a fantasy.
The first commandment is generally translated as “no other gods before me”, although it seems to be synonymous with “besides me”. This would indicate that worshiping God Almighty is the extent of worship. The Israelites later worshiped God and also Baal, Molech, Asherah, and a host of others; reading the prophets, it’s quite apparent that God regarded this as being worse than no worship at all.
By your reasoning then we shouldn’t have the commandment on coveting goods since that is already covered by the commandment on stealing.
Except Jesus never clarified prohibition of theft or fraud to include coveting; perhaps there simply was no need since coveting itself was already banned.
Don’t you think that sexual immorality and family a big issue? Look at the number of broken and disfunctional families in Christendom today. If there’s an attack by the Evil One, don’t you think that the obvious targets are the families - the domestic church?
Of course it’s a major issue, but this is sort of out of place with the rest of this post.
So that would be two commandments.