You shouldn’t covet your neighbor’s wife because she isn’t your’s.

She isn’t anyone’s. People don’t belong to people. Mutual ownership is a metaphor. The passage I quoted wasn’t talking about a metaphorical ownership. Men flat-out owned women. Women were the property of their fathers, then their husbands, in just about the same way as a sheep or goat was.

Now this one verse doesn’t mean the ten commandments are only talking to men. It’s just that writers were men, and so wrote with male pronouns.

The writers were men because men were the only ones who were allowed to be educated, men were the only ones with rights, and men were the only ones that mattered.

And on polygamy, yes, there was a bunch of it. But God did eventually say, hey enough of this, this is wrong, from now on, only one husband and one wife shall be together.

I’ve never heard the “better late than never” argument used with respect to God. I don’t think it’s valid.

A little research would be good. I suggest BibleGateway.com.

I’m familiar with the site, and I’ve done plenty of research in college regarding the history of the region and the Bible as literature. An objective look at the history of the region including extra-Biblical sources can help you put these verses into context much better than a modern-day reading of the Bible with modern-day ethics painted over it, as you seem to be doing.

The word covet means to want something that isn’t your’s. You shouldn’t covet your neighbor’s wife because she isn’t your’s. Now this one verse doesn’t mean the ten commandments are only talking to men. It’s just that writers were men, and so wrote with male pronouns.
Also, one book before in Genesis, it talks about the relationship between husband and wife. Two shall become as one flesh. This can be taken to mean the physical relationship, and it can also be taken to mean you are like one person, you are joined in such a way that there is no real sense of ownership but a sense of self.
Also, as previously stated elsewhere, if you want to get into ownership, Husband and wife belong to each other. It is mutual ownership.
Taking one verse and running with it, without examining it in context, and without using any other support within the same document, is just poor writing.

The point of the covet verse is simply not to say hey, don’t lust after things that aren’t your’s.

And on polygamy, yes, there was a bunch of it. But God did eventually say, hey enough of this, this is wrong, from now on, only one husband and one wife shall be together.

A little research would be good. I suggest BibleGateway.com. It’s got a Bible search engine with tons of different translations. And don’t use King James, no one knows what it’s translated from and when compared to things like the dead sea scrolls and the silver amulets it’s got over 400 errors.