Overwhelmingly, the Bible is silent on stealing - except for those few instances when it is addressed, such as your 10 commandments citation (and the related tenth, about coveting). A tiny minority of the total word count.
This is akin to the mostly peaceful protesters, who spend a nearly insignificant amount of their day actually lighting fires, breaking windows, or sucker punching people. In many cases, only a minute or less of their whole day is spent on such activities - mere rounding error in the “minds” of liberals.
How many times does it have to say stealing is wrong? In addition to the explicit command not to steal and not to covet another’s property, which is the precursor to theft, it also prohibits false weights and measures to used to steal small fractions at a time through deception. Yeah, I think it is pretty clear on theft.
Some verses condemning theft:
Exodus 20:15
Exodus 22:1
Leviticus 19:11
Deuteronomy 5:19
Proverbs 30:8,9
Jeremiah 7:9
Matthew 19:18
Mark 10:19
Luke 18:20
John 10:10
Romans 2:21
Romans 13:9
Ephesians 4:28
All of these verses address the serious sin of theft. But you err in thinking that if there were only a single prohibition against theft that somehow makes theft of less importance. All these prohibitions (the law) describe the complete character of God against which none of us measure up. And here is why:
10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
- Jas 2:10-11
“Guilty of all.” God considers the thief a lawbreaker and deserving of the fate earned by all lawbreakers — eternity in the lake of fire (Revelation 20:14,15)
The good news is that no man need die in his sins. Although the wages of sin is death, the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ (Romans 6:23). This gift is received by faith:
36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
- Jn 2:23; 3:36