Harari’s observation is almost too quiet to catch: the Tenth Commandment forbids coveting your neighbor’s house, wife — and slaves. No word against the institution itself. Just a reminder that they belong to someone else. What do we do with a God who regulates slavery without objecting to it? This essay traces the historical formation of the Hebrew deity through Harari’s lens, and asks what it means to see these texts clearly — without contempt, but also without the comfortable evasions that have served institutional religion so well for so long.