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Ten (234 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) The number greater by one than nine; the sum of five and five; ten units
of objects. 3. (n.) A symbol representing ten units, as 10, x, or X. Int. ...
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Ten-stringed (3 Occurrences)
Ten-stringed. Ten's, Ten-stringed. Tent . Multi-Version Concordance
Ten-stringed (3 Occurrences). Psalms 33:2 Give thanks ...
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Ten's (1 Occurrence)
... Multi-Version Concordance Ten's (1 Occurrence). ... What if ten are found there?" He
said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS). ...
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Ten-corded (1 Occurrence)
Ten-corded. Tenants, Ten-corded. Tend . Multi-Version Concordance
Ten-corded (1 Occurrence). Psalms 92:3 On a ten-corded ...
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Ten-horned (1 Occurrence)
Ten-horned. Tends, Ten-horned. Tenon . Multi-Version Concordance
Ten-horned (1 Occurrence). Revelation 17:7 Then the ...
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Spoon (13 Occurrences)
... Beginning with 7:14, we meet at every succeeding 6th verse the statement, "one golden
spoon of ten shekels, full of incense," till at 7:86 the summary ...
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10000 (8 Occurrences)
... 10000 (8 Occurrences). Matthew 18:24 When he had begun to reconcile, one was
brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. (See RSV). ...
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Spice (25 Occurrences)
... Numbers 7:14 One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice for burning; (BBE). Numbers
7:20 One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice; (BBE). ...
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25000 (11 Occurrences)
... an offering to Yahweh, a holy portion of the land; the length shall be the length
of twenty-five thousand reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand: it ...
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Pan (26 Occurrences)
... Numbers 7:14 one golden spoon of ten'shekels , full of incense; (See JPS NAS). Numbers
7:20 one golden spoon of ten'shekels , full of incense; (See JPS NAS). ...
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Bible Concordance

Ten (234 Occurrences)

Matthew 4:25 And great crowds followed Him, coming from Galilee, from the Ten Towns, from Jerusalem, and from beyond the district on the other side of the Jordan.
(WEY)

Matthew 18:24 When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 20:24 When the ten heard it, they were indignant with the two brothers.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 25:1 "Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 25:28 Take away therefore the talent from him, and give it to him who has the ten talents.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Mark 5:20 So the man departed, and related publicly everywhere in the Ten Towns all that Jesus had done for him; and all were astonished.
(WEY)

Mark 7:31 Returning from the neighbourhood of Tyre, He came by way of Sidon to the Lake of Galilee, passing through the district of the Ten Towns.
(WEY)

Mark 10:41 When the ten heard it, they began to be indignant towards James and John.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 14:31 Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 15:8 Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn't light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it?
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 17:12 As he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers met him, who stood at a distance.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 17:17 Jesus answered, "Weren't the ten cleansed? But where are the nine?
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 19:13 He called ten servants of his, and gave them ten mina coins, and told them,'Conduct business until I come.'
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 19:16 The first came before him, saying,'Lord, your mina has made ten more minas.'
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 19:17 "He said to him,'Well done, you good servant! Because you were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.'
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 19:24 He said to those who stood by,'Take the mina away from him, and give it to him who has the ten minas.'
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 19:25 "They said to him,'Lord, he has ten minas!'
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

John 1:39 He said to them, "Come, and see." They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.
(Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Acts 23:23 And he called unto him two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night;
(KJV ASV)

Acts 25:6 When he had stayed among them more than ten days, he went down to Caesarea, and on the next day he sat on the judgment seat, and commanded Paul to be brought.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 4:15 For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS NIV)

1 Corinthians 14:19 However in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Jude 1:14 About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS)

Revelation 2:10 Don't be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 5:11 I saw, and I heard something like a voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands;
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS NIV)

Revelation 9:16 And the number of the armies of the horsemen was twice ten thousand times ten thousand: I heard the number of them.
(ASV BBE DBY RSV)

Revelation 12:3 Another sign was seen in heaven. Behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 13:1 Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 17:3 He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored animal, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 17:7 The angel said to me, "Why do you wonder? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 17:12 The ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority as kings, with the beast, for one hour.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 17:16 The ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute, and will make her desolate, and will make her naked, and will eat her flesh, and will burn her utterly with fire.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 5:14 and all the days of Kenan were nine hundred ten years, then he died.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Genesis 16:3 Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 18:32 He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 24:10 The servant took ten camels, of his master's camels, and departed, having a variety of good things of his master's with him. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 24:22 It happened, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 24:55 Her brother and her mother said, "Let the young lady stay with us a few days, at least ten. After that she will go."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 24:60 They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, "Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your seed possess the gate of those who hate them."
(WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY NAS RSV)

Genesis 31:7 Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn't allow him to hurt me.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 31:41 These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 32:15 thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 42:3 Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 45:23 To his father, he sent after this manner: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 46:27 And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.
(KJV JPS ASV)

Genesis 50:3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
(KJV JPS ASV)

Genesis 50:22 Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father's house. Joseph lived one hundred ten years.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 50:26 So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 15:27 And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.
(KJV JPS ASV BBE)

Exodus 26:1 "Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim. The work of the skillful workman you shall make them.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 26:13 The cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side, of that which remains in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 26:16 Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and one and a half cubits the breadth of each board.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 27:12 For the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 34:28 He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 36:8 All the wise-hearted men among those who did the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet, with cherubim, the work of the skillful workman, they made them.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 36:21 Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 38:12 For the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Leviticus 26:8 Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Leviticus 26:26 When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Leviticus 27:5 If the person is from five years old even to twenty years old, then your valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Leviticus 27:7 If the person is from sixty years old and upward; if it is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 7:14 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 7:20 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 7:26 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 7:32 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 7:38 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 7:44 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 7:50 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 7:56 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 7:62 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 7:68 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 7:74 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 7:80 one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 7:86 the twelve golden ladles, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary; all the gold of the ladles weighed one hundred twenty shekels;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 10:36 When it rested, he said, "Return, Yahweh, to the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel."
(WEB JPS ASV RSV)

Numbers 11:19 You will not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 11:32 The people rose up all that day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails. He who gathered least gathered ten homers; and they spread them all abroad for themselves around the camp.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 14:22 because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 29:23 "'On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 33:9 And they removed from Marah, and came unto Elim: and in Elim were twelve fountains of water, and threescore and ten palm trees; and they pitched there.
(KJV JPS ASV BBE)

Deuteronomy 4:13 He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments; and he wrote them on two tables of stone.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 10:4 He wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which Yahweh spoke to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and Yahweh gave them to me.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 10:22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.
(KJV JPS ASV)

Deuteronomy 32:30 How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had delivered them up?
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 33:2 He said, "Yahweh came from Sinai, And rose from Seir to them. He shone forth from Mount Paran. He came from the ten thousands of holy ones. At his right hand was a fiery law for them.
(WEB KJV ASV WBS NAS RSV)

Deuteronomy 33:17 The firstborn of his herd, majesty is his. His horns are the horns of the wild ox. With them he shall push the peoples all of them, even the ends of the earth: They are the ten thousands of Ephraim. They are the thousands of Manasseh."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Joshua 15:57 Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Joshua 17:5 Ten parts fell to Manasseh, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is beyond the Jordan;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Joshua 21:5 The rest of the children of Kohath had ten cities by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Joshua 21:26 All the cities of the families of the rest of the children of Kohath were ten with their suburbs.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Joshua 22:14 and with him ten princes, one prince of a fathers' house for each of the tribes of Israel; and they were everyone of them head of their fathers' houses among the thousands of Israel.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Joshua 24:29 It happened after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred and ten years old.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Judges 1:4 Judah went up; and Yahweh delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they struck of them in Bezek ten thousand men.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Judges 2:8 Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Judges 3:29 They struck of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, every lusty man, and every man of valor; and there escaped not a man.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Judges 4:6 She sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh Naphtali, and said to him, "Hasn't Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded,'Go and draw to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Judges 4:10 Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali together to Kedesh; and there went up ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Judges 4:14 Deborah said to Barak, "Go; for this is the day in which Yahweh has delivered Sisera into your hand. Hasn't Yahweh gone out before you?" So Barak went down from Mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Judges 6:25 The same night the Lord said to him, Take ten men of your servants and an ox seven years old, and after pulling down the altar of Baal which is your father's, and cutting down the holy tree by its side,
(BBE)

Judges 6:27 Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as Yahweh had spoken to him: and it happened, because he feared his father's household and the men of the city, so that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) One more than nine; twice five.

2. (n.) The number greater by one than nine; the sum of five and five; ten units of objects.

3. (n.) A symbol representing ten units, as 10, x, or X.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

COMMANDMENTS, THE TEN

See COMMANDMENT; TEN COMMANDMENTS.

TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE

I. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, AN ISRAELITISH CODE

II. THE PROMULGATON OF THE DECALOGUE

III. ANALYSIS OF THE DECALOGUE WITH BRIEF EXEGETICAL NOTES

1. How Numbered

2. How Grouped

3. Original Form

4. Brief Exegetical Notes

IV. JESUS AND THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

LITERATURE

In the Old Testament the Decalogue is uniformly referred to as "the ten words" (Exodus 34:28 margin; Deuteronomy 4:13 margin; 10:4 margin), or simply as "the words" spoken by Yahweh (Exodus 20:1; Exodus 34:27 Deuteronomy 5:22; Deuteronomy 10:2), or as "the words of the covenant" (Exodus 34:28). In the New Testament they are called "commandments" (Matthew 19:17 Ephesians 6:2), as with us in most Christian lands.

I. The Ten Commandments an Israelite Code.

The "ten words" were spoken by Yahweh to the people whom He had but recently delivered from Egyptian bondage, and then led out into the wilderness, that He might teach them His laws. It was to Israel that the Decalogue was primarily addressed, and not to all mankind. Thus, the reason assigned for keeping the 5th commandment applies to the people who were on their way to the land which had been given to Abraham and his descendants (Exodus 20:12); and the 4th commandment is enforced by reference to the servitude in Egypt (Deuteronomy 5:15). It is possible, then, that even in the Ten Commandments there are elements peculiar to the Mosaic system and which our Lord and His apostles may not make a part of faith and duty for Christians.

See SABBATH.

Of the "ten words," seven were perhaps binding on the consciences of enlightened men prior to the days of Moses: murder, adultery, theft and false witness were already treated as crimes among the Babylonians and the Egyptians; and intelligent men knew that it was wrong to dishonor God by improper use of His name, or to show lack of respect to parents, or to covet the property of another. No doubt the sharp, ringing words in which these evils are forbidden in the Ten Commandments gave to Israel a clearer apprehension of the sins referred to than they had ever had before; and the manner in which they were grouped by the divine speaker brought into bold relief the chief elements of the moral law. But the first two prohibitions were novelties in the religious life of the world; for men worshipped many gods, and bowed down to images of every conceivable kind. The 2nd commandment was too high even for Israel to grasp at that early day; a few weeks later the people were dancing about the golden calf at the foot of Sinai. The observance of the Sabbath was probably unknown to other nations, though it may have been already known in the family of Abraham.

II. The Promulgation of the Decalogue.

The "ten words" were spoken by Yahweh Himself from the top of the mount under circumstances the most awe-inspiring. In the early morning there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of a trumpet exceeding loud. It is no wonder that the people trembled as they faced the smoking and quaking mount, and listened to the high demands of a holy God. Their request that all future revelations should be made through Moses as the prophet mediator was quite natural. The promulgation of the Ten Commandments stands out as the most notable event in all the wilderness sojourn of Israel. There was no greater day in history before the coming of the Son of God into the world.

After a sojourn of 40 days in the mount, Moses came down with "the two tables of the testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God." At the foot of the mount, when Moses saw the golden calf and the dancing throng about it, he cast the tables out of his hands and broke them in pieces (Exodus 31:18; Exodus 39:15-20). Through the intercession of Moses, the wrath of Yahweh was averted from Israel; and Yahweh invited Moses to ascend the mount with two new tablets, on which He would write the words that were on the first tables, which were broken. Moses was commanded to write the special precepts given by God during this interview; but the. Ten Commandments were written on the stone tablets by Yahweh Himself (Exodus 34:1-4, 27-29 Deuteronomy 10:1-5). These precious tablets were later deposited in the ark of the covenant (Exodus 40:20). Thus in every way possible the Ten Commandments are exalted as the most precious and directly divine of all the precepts of the Mosaic revelation.

III. Analysis of the Decalogue with Brief Exegetical Notes.

That there were "ten words" is expressly stated (Exodus 34:28 Deuteronomy 4:13; Deuteronomy 10:4); but just how to delimit them one from another is a task which has not been found easy. For a full discussion of the various theories, see Dillmann, Exodus, 201-5, to whom we are indebted for much that is here set forth.

1. How Numbered:

(1) Josephus is the first witness for the division now common among Protestants (except Lutherans), namely,

(a) foreign gods,

(b) images,

(c) name of God,

(d) Sabbath,

(e) parents,

(f) murder,

(g) adultery,

(h) theft,

(i) false witness,

(j) coveting.

Before him, Philo made the same arrangement, except that he followed the Septuagint in putting adultery before murder. This mode of counting was current with many of the church Fathers, and is now in use in the Greek Catholic church and with most Protestants.

(2) Augustine combined foreign gods and images (Exodus 20:2-6) into one commandment and following the order of Deuteronomy 5:21 (Hebrew 18) made the 9th commandment a prohibition of the coveting of a neighbor's wife, while the 10th prohibits the coveting of his house and other property. Roman Catholics and Lutherans accept Augustine's mode of reckoning, except that they follow the order in Exodus 20:17, so that the 9th commandment forbids the coveting of a neighbor's house, while the 10th includes his wife and all other property.

(3) A third mode of counting is that adopted by the Jews in the early Christian centuries, which became universal among them in the Middle Ages and so down to the present time. According to this scheme, the opening statement in Exodus 20:2 is the "first word," Exodus 20:3-6 the second (combining foreign gods with images), while the following eight commandments are as in the common Protestant arrangement.

The division of the prohibition of coveting into two commandments is fatal to the Augustinian scheme; and the reckoning of the initial statement in Exodus 20:2 as one of the "ten words" seems equally fatal to the modern Jewish method of counting. The prohibition of images, which is introduced by the solemn formula, "Thou shalt not," is surely a different "word" from the command to worship no god other than Yahweh. Moreover, if nine of the "ten words" are commandments, it would seem reasonable to make the remaining "word" a commandment, if this can be done without violence to the subjectmatter. See Eerdmaus, The Expositor, July, 1909, 21;.

2. How Grouped:

(1) The Jews, from Philo to the present, divide the "ten words" into two groups of five each. As there were two tables, it would be natural to suppose that five commandments were recorded on each tablet, though the fact that the tablets had writing on both their sides (Exodus 32:15) would seem to weaken the force of the argument for an equal division. Moreover, the first pentad, in the present text of Exodus and Deuteronomy, is more than four times as long as the second.

(2) Augustine supposed that there were three commandments on the first table and seven on the second. According to his method of numbering the commandments, this would put the command to honor parents at the head of the second table, as in the third method of grouping the ten words.

(3) Calvin and many moderns assign four commandments to the first table and six to the second. This has the advantage of assigning all duties to God to the first table and all duties to men to the second. It also accords with our Lord's reduction of the commandments to two (Matthew 22:34-40).

3. Original Form:

A comparison of the text of the Decalogue in Deuteronomy 5 with that in Exodus 20 reveals a goodly number of differences, especially in the reasons assigned for the observance of the 4th and 5th commandments, and in the text of the 10th commandment. A natural explanation of these differences is the fact that Deuteronomy employs the free-and-easy style of public discourse. The Ten Commandments are substantially the same in the two passages.

From the days of Ewald to the present, some of the leading Old Testament scholars have held that originally all the commandments were brief and without the addition of any special reasons for their observance. According to this hypothesis, the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and the 10th commandments were probably as follows: "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image"; "Thou shalt not take the name of Yahweh thy God in vain"; "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy"; "Honor thy father and thy mother"; "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house." This early critical theory would account for the differences in the two recensions by supposing that the motives for keeping the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th commandments, as well as the expansion of the 10th, were additions made through the influence of the prophetic teaching. If accompanied by a full recognition of the divine origin of the ten words in the Mosaic era, this hypothesis might be acceptable to a thorough believer in revelation. Before acquiescing in the more radical theories of some recent scholars, such a believer will demand more cogent arguments than the critics have been able to bring forward. Thus when we are told that the Decalogue contains prohibitions that could not have been incorporated into a code before the days of Manasseh, we demand better proofs than the failure of Israel to live up to the high demands of the 2nd and the 10th commandments, or a certain theory of the evolution of the history that may commend itself to the mind of naturalistic critics. Yahweh was at work in the early history of Israel; and the great prophets of the 8th century, far from creating ethical monotheism, were reformers sent to demand that Israel should embody in daily life the teachings of the Torah.

Goethe advanced the view that Exodus 34:10-28 originally contained a second decalogue.

Wellhausen (Code of Hammurabi, 331) reconstructs this so-called decalogue as follows:

(1) Thou shalt worship no other god (Exodus 34:14).

(2) Thou shalt make thee no molten gods (Exodus 34:17).

(3) The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep (Exodus 34:18 a).

(4) Every firstling is mine (Exodus 34:19 a).

(5) Thou shalt observe the feast of weeks (Exodus 34:22 a).

(6) And the feast of ingathering at the year's end (Exodus 34:22 c).

(7) Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread (Exodus 34:25 a).

(8) The fat of my feast shall not remain all night until the morning (23:18b; compare 34:25b).

(9) The best of the first-fruits of thy ground shalt thou bring to the house of Yahweh thy God (Exodus 34:26 a).

(10) Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk (Exodus 34:26).

Addis agrees with Wellhausen that even this simpler decalogue must be put long after the time of Moses (EB, 1051).

Now, it is evident that the narrative in Exodus 34:27, in its present form, means to affirm that Moses was commanded to write the precepts contained in the section immediately preceding. The Ten Commandments, as the foundation of the covenant, were written by Yahweh Himself on the two tablets of stone (Exodus 31:18; Exodus 32:15; 34:28). It is only by free critical handling of the narrative that it can be made to appear that Moses wrote on the two tables the supposed decalogue of Exodus 34:14-26. Moreover, the law of the Sabbath (34:21), which is certainly appropriate amid the ritual ordinances of Exodus 34, must be omitted altogether, in order to reduce the precepts to ten; also the command in 34:23 has to be deleted. It is interesting to observe that the prohibition of molten gods (34:17), even according to radical critics, is found in the earliest body of Israelite laws. There is no sufficient reason for denying that the 2nd commandment was promulgated in the days of Moses. Yahweh's requirements have always been in advance of the practice of His people.

4. Brief Exegetical Notes:

(1) The 1st commandment prohibits the worship of any god other than Yahweh. If it be said that this precept inculcates monolatry and not monotheism, the reply is ready to hand that a consistent worship of only one God is, for a people surrounded by idolaters, the best possible approach to the conclusion that there is only one true God. The organs of revelation, whatever may have been the notions and practices of the mass of the Israelite people, always speak in words that harmonize with a strict monotheism.

(2) The 2nd commandment forbids the use of images in worship; even an image of Yahweh is not to be tolerated (compare Exodus 32:5). Yahweh's mercy is greater than His wrath; while the iniquity of the fathers descends to the third and the fourth generation for those who hate Yahweh, His mercy overflows to thousands who love Him. It is doubtful whether the rendering `showing mercy to the thousandth generation' (Exodus 20:6) can be successfully defended.

(3) Yahweh's name is sacred, as standing for His person; therefore it must be employed in no vain or false way. The commandment, no doubt, includes more than false swearing. Cursing, blasphemy and every profane use of Yahweh's name are forbidden.

(4) As the 1st commandment inculcates the unity of God and the 2nd His spirituality, so also the 3rd commandment guards His name against irreverent use and the 4th sets apart the seventh day as peculiarly His day, reserved for a Sabbath. Exodus 20:11 emphasizes the religious aspect of the Sabbath, while Deuteronomy 5:14 lays stress on its humane aspect, and Deuteronomy 5:15 links it with the deliverance from bondage in Egypt.

(5) The transition from duties to God to duties to men is made naturally in the 5th commandment, which inculcates reverence for parents, to whom their children should look up with gratitude, as all men should toward the Divine Father.

(6) Human life is so precious and sacred that no man should dare to take it away by violence.

(7) The family life is safeguarded by the 7th commandment.

(8) The 8th commandment forbids theft in all its forms. It recognizes the right of personal ownership of property.

(9) The 9th commandment safeguards honor and good name among men. Slander, defamation, false testimony in court and kindred sins are included.

(10) The 10th commandment is the most searching of them all, for it forbids the inward longing, the covetous desire for what belongs to another. The presence of such a deeply spiritual command among the "ten words" shows that we have before us no mere code of laws defining crimes, but a body of ethical and spiritual precepts for the moral education of the people of Yahweh.

IV. Jesus and the Ten Commandments.

Our Lord, in the interview with the rich young ruler, gave a recapitulation of the commandments treating of duties to men (Mark 10:19 Matthew 19:18 Luke 18:20). He quotes the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th commandments. The minor variations in the reports in the three Synoptic Gospels remind the student of the similar variations in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5. Already in the Sermon on the Mount Jesus had quoted the 6th and 7th commandments, and then had gone on to show that anger is incipient murder, and that lust is adultery in the heart (Matthew 5:27-32). He takes the words of the Decalogue and extends them into the realm of thought and feeling. He may have had in mind the 3rd commandment in His sharp prohibition of the Jewish habit of swearing by various things (Matthew 5:33-37). As to the Sabbath, His teaching and example tended to lighten the onerous restrictions of the rabbis (Mark 2:23-28). Duty to parents He elevated above all supposed claims of vows and offerings (Matthew 15:4-6). In further extension of the 8th commandment, Jesus said, "Do not defraud" (Mark 10:19); and in treating of the ethics of speech, Jesus not only condemns false witness, but also includes railing, blasphemy, and even an idle word (Matthew 15:19; Matthew 12:31, 36 f). In His affirmation that God is spirit (John 4:24), Jesus made the manufacture of images nothing but folly. All his ethical teaching might be said to be founded on the 10th commandment, which tracks sin to its lair in the mind and soul of man.

Our Lord embraced the whole range of human obligation in two, or at most three, commands: (1) "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind"; (2) "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" (Matthew 22:37-40; compare Deuteronomy 6:5 Leviticus 19:18). With love such as is here described in the heart, man cannot trespass against God or his fellow-men. At the close of His ministry, on the night of the betrayal, Jesus gave to His followers a third commandment, not different from the two on which the whole Law hangs, but an extension of the second great commandment upward into a higher realm of self-sacrifice (John 13:34; 15:12, 17; compare Ephesians 5:2 Galatians 6:10 1 John 3:14-18). "Thou shalt love" is the first word and the last in the teaching of our Lord. His teaching is positive rather than negative, and so simple that a child can understand it. For the Christian, the Decalogue is no longer the highest summary of human duty. He must ever read it with sincere respect as one of the great monuments of the love of God in the moral and religious education of mankind; but it has given place to the higher teaching of the Son of God, all that was permanently valuable in the Ten Commandments having been taken up into the teaching of our Lord and His apostles.

LITERATURE.

Oehler, Old Testament Theology, I, 267;; Dillmann, Exodus-Leviticus, 200-219; Kuenen, Origin and Composition of the Hexateuch, 244; Wellhausen, Code of Hammurabi, 331 f; Rothstein, Das Bundesbuch; Baenstch, Das Bundesbuch; Meissaner, Der Dekalog; Driver, "Deuteronomy," ICC; Addis, Documents of the Hexateuch, I, 136;; R. W. Dale, The Ten Commandments; G. D. Boardman, University Lectures on the Ten Commandments (Philadelphia, 1889).

John Richard Sampey

TEN

(`eser; deka).

See NUMBER.

TEN STRINGS

(`asor).

See MUSIC, I, 1, (2), (c).

Greek

3461. murias -- ten thousand, a myriad
... ten thousand, a myriad. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: murias Phonetic
Spelling: (moo-ree'-as) Short Definition: a myriad, ten thousand ...
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1176. deka -- ten
... deka. 1177 . ten. Part of Speech: Indeclinable Numeral (Adjective) Transliteration:
deka Phonetic Spelling: (dek'-ah) Short Definition: ten Definition: ten. ...
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3463. murios -- countless, pl. ten thousand
... ten thousand. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: murios Phonetic Spelling:
(moo'-ree-oi) Short Definition: ten thousand, innumerable Definition: ten ...
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1427. dodeka -- two and ten, ie twelve
... two and ten, ie twelve. Part of Speech: Indeclinable Numeral (Adjective)
Transliteration: dodeka Phonetic Spelling: (do'-dek-ah) Short Definition: twelve ...
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1180. dekatessares -- fourteen
... 1180 (from 1176 , "ten" and 5064 , "four") -- . ... fourteen. From deka and tessares;
ten and four, ie Fourteen -- fourteen. see GREEK deka. see GREEK tessares. ...
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1440. hebdomekonta -- seventy
... seventy, three score and ten. From hebdomos and a modified form of deka; seventy --
seventy, three score and ten. see GREEK hebdomos. see GREEK deka. ...
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1179. Dekapolis -- Decapolis, a region East of the Jordan
... Transliteration: Dekapolis Phonetic Spelling: (dek-ap'-ol-is) Short Definition:
Decapolis Definition: Decapolis, meaning a group or district of ten cities (of ...
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5507. chilioi -- a thousand
... thousand. 5507 -- properly, a ; the product of 10 x 10 x 10 (10 3 , ten );
(figuratively) , , showing no one () is left out. See ...
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2390. iaomai -- to heal
... Is 53:4,5). : Lk 17:15: "Now one of them [ie the ten lepers], when he saw
that he had been (2390 ), turned back, God with .". [2390 ...
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1617. ektenesteron -- more intently
... more intently. Part of Speech: Adverb Transliteration: ektenesteron Phonetic Spelling:
(ek-ten-es'-ter-on) Short Definition: more earnestly Definition: more ...
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Strong's Hebrew

6218. asor -- a ten, decade
asor or asor. 6217, 6218. asor or asor. 6219 . a ten, decade. Transliteration:
asor or asor Phonetic Spelling: (aw-sore') Short Definition: tenth. ...
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6235. eser -- ten
eser or asarah. 6234, 6235. eser or asarah. 6236 . ten. Transliteration: eser
or asarah Phonetic Spelling: (eh'ser) Short Definition: ten. ...
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6236. asar -- ten
asar or asrah. 6235, 6236. asar or asrah. 6237 . ten. Transliteration: asar
or asrah Phonetic Spelling: (as-ar') Short Definition: ten. ...
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7233. rebabah -- multitude, myriad, ten thousand
... 7232b, 7233. rebabah. 7234 . multitude, myriad, ten thousand. Transliteration:
rebabah Phonetic Spelling: (reb-aw-baw') Short Definition: thousands. ...
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7239. ribbo -- ten thousand, myriad
ribbo or ribbo. 7238, 7239. ribbo or ribbo. 7240 . ten thousand, myriad.
Transliteration: ribbo or ribbo Phonetic Spelling: (rib-bo') Short Definition: 20000 ...
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6240. asar -- ten
asar or esreh. 6239, 6240. asar or esreh. 6241 . ten. Transliteration: asar
or esreh Phonetic Spelling: (aw-sawr') Short Definition: twelve. ... ten, teen, tenth ...
/hebrew/6240.htm - 6k

7232a. rabab -- to multiply ten thousand times
... 7232, 7232a. rabab. 7232b . to multiply ten thousand times. Transliteration:
rabab Short Definition: thousands. Word Origin denominative ...
/hebrew/7232a.htm - 5k

2150. zalzal -- ten-drils
... 2149, 2150. zalzal. 2151 . ten-drils. Transliteration: zalzal Phonetic
Spelling: (zal-zal') Short Definition: sprigs. Word Origin ...
/hebrew/2150.htm - 6k

7232. rabab -- to multiply ten thousand times
... 7231, 7232. rabab. 7232a . to multiply ten thousand times. Transliteration:
rabab Phonetic Spelling: (raw-bab') Short Definition: shoot. shoot ...
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7240. ribbo -- myriad
... ten thousand times ten thousand. (Aramaic) corresponding to ribbow -- X ten thousand
times ten thousand. see HEBREW ribbow. 7239, 7240. ribbo. 7241 . ...
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Library

The Banquet of the Ten Virgins, or Concerning Chastity
The Banquet of the Ten Virgins, or Concerning Chastity. <. The Banquet of
the Ten Virgins, or Concerning Chastity Methodius. Translated by the Rev. ...
/.../methodius/the banquet of the ten virgins or concerning chastity/

The Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments. <. The Ten Commandments Thomas Watson. Table of Contents.
Title Page. 1. INTRODUCTION. 1.1 Obedience. 1.2 Love. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/watson/the ten commandments/

ten homilies on the epistle of john to the parthians
ten homilies on the epistle of john to the parthians. <. ten homilies
on the epistle of john to the parthians St. Augustine. ...
/.../augustine/ten homilies on the epistle of john to the parthians/

The Ten Commandments.
... THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. The Israelites ... trembled. Then God spake from the midst
of the fire, and gave the people the Ten Commandments. These ...
/.../anonymous/mother stories from the old testament/the ten commandments.htm

The Ten-Horned Beast.
... EXPOSITION OF THE APOCALYPSE. The Ten-Horned Beast. "And I was standing
on the sand of the sea, and saw a wild beast ascending out ...
/.../bliss/a brief commentary on the apocalypse/the ten-horned beast.htm

Chapter ten
... Chapter Ten. "If any man serve me, let him follow me.". It was nearly midnight
before the services at the Rectangle closed. Gray stayed ...
//christianbookshelf.org/sheldon/in his steps/chapter ten.htm

The Ten Commandments
... Divine Songs The Ten Commandments. 8,8. 1. Thou shalt have no more Gods but me.
2. Before no idol bow thy knee. 3. Take not the Name of God in vain: ...
//christianbookshelf.org/watts/divine and moral songs/the ten commandments.htm

The Ten Commandments.
... THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 1 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 2 Thou
shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness ...
/.../various/indian methodist hymn-book/the ten commandments.htm

The Ten virgins.
... XIII. THE TEN VIRGINS. "Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins,
which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/arnot/the parables of our lord/xiii the ten virgins.htm

The Ten Commandments in Chinook.
... The Ten Commandments in Chinook. 1 Kopet ikt, nika Saghalie-Tyee. 2 Wake
mika iskum ikta spose mamook Saghalie-Tyee yaka. 3 Wake ...
/.../various/indian methodist hymn-book/the ten commandments in chinook.htm

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