The number 10
Testimony, law, completeness of divine order
Ten represents completeness of order and divine testimony. The Ten Commandments summarize God's moral law. Ten plagues demonstrated God's power over Egypt. The tithe (tenth) acknowledges God's ownership of all.
In Hebrew and Greek
Hebrew
Eser (עֶשֶׂר) - ten
Greek
Deka (δέκα) - ten
First occurrence
And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
The pattern in Scripture
- Ten Commandments
- Ten plagues of Egypt
- Tithe - the tenth
- Ten virgins (Matt 25)
- Ten lepers healed (Luke 17)
Key verses
And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded th...
And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the...
And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the...
But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance f...
10:10 verses
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
And he said unto them, Let the Lord be so with you, as I will let you go, and your little ones: look...
And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;
Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye ...
And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the Lord he...