And summoning ten of his own slaves, he gave them ten minas and said to them, 'Do business {until I come back}.'

Or what king, going out to engage another king in battle, does not sit down first [and] deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand.

Or what woman who has ten drachmas, if she loses one drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until she finds [it]?

And [as] he was entering into a certain village, ten men met [him]--lepers, who stood at a distance.

So Jesus answered [and] said, "Were not ten cleansed? And where [are] the nine?

So the first arrived, saying, 'Sir, your mina has made ten minas more!'

And he said to him, 'Well done, good slave! Because you have been faithful in a very small thing, {have authority} over ten cities.'

And to the bystanders he said, 'Take away from him the mina and give [it] to the one who has the ten minas!'

And they said to him, 'Sir, he has ten minas.'