'Ten' in the Bible

Abram listened to Sarai's suggestion, so Abram's wife Sarai took her Egyptian servant, Hagar, and gave her as a wife to her husband Abram. This took place ten years after Abram had settled in the land of Canaan.

Finally, Abraham inquired, "I hope my LORD will not be angry if I speak only once more. What if ten are found there?" He replied, "For the sake of those ten I won't destroy it."

Then Abraham's servant took ten camels from his master's herd of camels and left on his journey with all kinds of gifts from his master's inventory. Eventually, he traveled as far as Aram-naharaim, Nahor's home town.

She quickly emptied her jug into the trough and ran to the well to draw again until she had drawn enough water for all ten of the servant's camels.

But her brother and mother said, "Let the young lady stay with us a few days at least ten and after that she may go."

Even so, your father has cheated me. He broke our wage agreement ten times. However, God didn't allow him to harm me.

I've lived in your house these 20 years serving fourteen years for your two daughters and another six years for your flocks. During all that time you changed my wages ten times.

30 milking camels with their young, 40 cows with ten bulls, and 20 female donkeys with ten male donkeys.

So ten of Joseph's brothers left to buy grain from Egypt.

He sent his father ten male donkeys loaded with the best of Egyptian goods and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, bread, and provisions for his father during the journey.

"You are to make the tent with ten curtains of fine woven linen and with blue, purple, and scarlet material. You are to make them with cherubim skillfully worked into them.

Each board is to be ten cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.

"The width of the court on the west side is to have hangings 50 cubits long with ten pillars and ten sockets.

While Moses was there with the LORD for 40 days and 40 nights, he did not eat or drink. He wrote the Ten Commandments, the words of the covenant, on the tablets.

All the skilled craftsmen among the workers made the tent with ten curtains of fine woven linen, blue, purple, and scarlet material. He made them with cherubim skillfully worked into them.

Each board was ten cubits long, and one and a half cubits wide.

For the west side there were hangings 50 cubits long with their ten pillars and ten sockets. The hooks of the pillars and their bands were made of silver.

Five of you will chase a hundred, a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.

When I destroy the source of your bread, ten women will bake bread in one oven. Then they'll return back your bread by weight. You'll eat but won't be satisfied.

If a person is from five to 20 years, then your valuation for a male is to be 20 shekels and for a female ten shekels.

If a person is 60 or more years old, then your valuation for a male is to be fifteen shekels and for a female ten shekels.

one gold pan weighing ten shekels, full of incense;

one gold pan weighing ten shekels, full of incense;

one gold pan weighing ten shekels, full of incense;

one gold pan weighing ten shekels, full of incense;

one gold pan weighing ten shekels, full of incense;

one gold pan weighing ten shekels full of incense;

one gold pan weighing ten shekels, full of incense;

one gold pan weighing ten shekels full of incense;

one gold pan weighing ten shekels, full of incense;

one gold pan weighing ten shekels full of incense;

one gold pan weighing ten shekels, full of incense;

one gold pan weighing ten shekels, full of incense;

Also, twelve gold ladles filled with incense were presented, each ladle weighing ten shekels (calculated according to the shekel of the sanctuary). All of the gold of the ladles weighed 120 shekels.

not only for a day, or for two days, or for five days, or for ten days, or for 20 days,

The people stayed up all that day, all that night, and all through the next day, gathering quails. The one who gathered least gathered enough to fill ten omers, as they spread out all around the camp.

none of those men who saw my glory and watched my miracles that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness even though they've tested me these ten times and never listened to my voice

"On the fourth day, you are to present ten bulls, two rams, and fourteen one year old lambs, all without defects,

He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to observe the Ten Commandments that he wrote on two stone tablets.

Then the LORD inscribed on the tablets what he wrote before, that is, the Ten Commandments that the LORD declared to you on the mountain from the middle of the fire during the day of the assembly. And the LORD gave them to me.

Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah, for a total of ten cities and villages.

That is why ten allotments fell to Manasseh, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan beyond the Jordan River,

The rest of the descendants of Kohath received ten cities by random lot from the families of the tribes of Ephraim, Dan, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

All the cities with their pasture lands for the families of the rest of the descendants of Kohath numbered ten.

and ten officials with him (one for each of the tribal families of Israel, each one of them a family leader among the tribes of Israel).

So Gideon went with ten men who were his servants and did just what the LORD had told him to do, though he did it at night because he was too afraid of his father's family and the leading men of the city to do it during the day.

After he died, Ibzan from Bethlehem governed Israel for ten years.

Elon the Zebulunite governed Israel after him for ten years.

So Micah replied, "Come live with me! You can be a spiritual father to me, as well as a priest. I'll pay you ten silver coins a year, plus a priestly uniform and an income." So the descendant of Levi moved in.

We'll take ten men out of 100 from all of the tribes of Israel. We'll appoint 100 out of 1,000 and 1,000 out of 10,000 to supply provisions for the army. And when we reach Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin, we'll punish them for all of the stupid things that they've done in Israel."

Each of her sons married Moabite women: one named Orpah and the other named Ruth. After they lived there about ten years,

Boaz selected ten of the town elders and spoke to them, "Sit down here." So they sat down

Elkanah her husband told her, "Hannah, why are you crying and why don't you eat? Why are you upset? Am I not better to you than ten sons?"

Jesse told his son David, "Take this ephah of roasted grain to your brothers, along with these ten loaves of bread, and quickly take them to your brothers in the camp.

Take these ten pieces of cheese to the commander of the unit, check on the well-being of your brothers, and bring something back from them.

As the women sang and played, they said, "Saul has struck down his thousands but David his ten thousands."

The officials of Achish told him, "Isn't this David, king of the land? Isn't this the one about whom they sang as they danced, "Saul has struck down his thousands, but David his ten thousands'?"

David sent ten young men, saying to the young men, "Go up to Carmel, find Nabal, and greet him in my name.

About ten days later the LORD struck Nabal, and he died.

Isn't this the same David about whom the maidens sang when they were dancing, "Saul has struck down his thousands, but David his ten thousands'?"

So the king left, taking his entire household with him except for ten mistresses, who were to keep the palace in order.

Joab asked the man who was reporting to him, "What! You saw him? Why didn't you kill him right then and there? I would've given you ten pieces of silver and a warrior's sash!"

Ten young men who served as Joab's personal assistants then surrounded Absalom, striking him repeatedly and killing him.

But the men from Israel answered the men from Judah: "We represent ten of the tribes of Israel! So we have more right to David than you do! Why haven't you taken us seriously? Weren't we the first to talk about bringing back our king?" But what the people of Judah had to say was harsher than what the people of Israel were saying.

When David arrived at his palace in Jerusalem, the king took the ten mistresses whom he had left behind to keep the palace in order and placed them in a separate house, providing for them under the care of a protective guard. He never visited them again, so they were under care until they died, living as if their husbands had died.

ten fattened oxen, 20 pasture-fed cattle, 100 sheep, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks, and domestic poultry.

A portico extended in front of the Temple for 20 cubits outward, corresponding to the width of the Temple. Along the front of the Temple its depth was ten cubits.

Inside the inner sanctuary Solomon placed two cherubim crafted from olive wood, each ten cubits high.

Each wing of one cherub was five cubits long, and each wing of the other cherub was five cubits long, so that the distance from the end of one wing to the end of the other wing was ten cubits.

Each cherub was ten cubits high, and both were of the same size and shape,

the height of one cherub being ten cubits, as was the height of the other.

The foundation was made of expensive stone, including large stones ten cubits long and stones eight cubits long.

Hiram also made a sea of cast metal ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in shape and five cubits and 30 cubits in its inner circumference.

Under the brim, completely encircling it, were two rows of gourds inlaid as part of the original casting, ten to a cubit.

Hiram also made ten bronze water carts. Each one was four cubits wide, four cubits long, and three cubits high.

He made ten identical water carts by using the same plans, castings, and shapes for all of them.

Hiram also fashioned ten bronze basins, each holding about 40 baths, each basin measuring four cubits in diameter, with one basin for each stand.

the ten stands with the ten basins on the stands,

Then he told Jeroboam, "Take ten pieces for yourself, because this is what the LORD God of Israel says:

"Pay attention! I'm going to tear the kingdom out of Solomon's control and give you ten tribes. I'll leave him one tribe for the sake of my servant David and one tribe for the sake of Jerusalem, the city that I chose from all of the tribes of Israel.

but I will take the kingdom away from his son's control and give ten tribes to you.

Take ten loaves with you, some cakes, and a jar of honey and go visit him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy."

The king of Aram replied, "Go now, and I'll send a letter to the king of Israel." So he left and took with him ten talents of silver and 6,000 units of gold, along with ten sets of clothing.

For the Aramean king had left only 50 cavalry, ten chariots, and 10,000 soldiers out of the army belonging to Jehoahaz, because the king of Aram had destroyed the others, making them like chaff left over after threshing.

So Isaiah replied, "This will be your sign from the LORD that the LORD will do what he has promised. Shall the shadow go forward ten steps or go back ten steps?"

Hezekiah answered, "It's an easy thing for a shadow to lengthen ten steps. So let the shadow go backward ten steps."

So Isaiah cried out to the LORD, who brought the shadow back ten steps after it had gone down the stairway of Ahaz.

Nevertheless, seven months later, Nethaniah's son Ishmael, the grandson of Elishama from the royal family, came with ten men and attacked Gedaliah. As a result, he died along with the Jews and Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.

Ten towns were allocated to the rest of the descendants of Kohath by lot out of the family of the tribe, that is, the half-tribe of Manasseh.

Solomon also constructed a bronze altar 20 cubits long, 20 cubits wide, and ten cubits high.

Underneath, figurines resembling oxen encircled the circular sea beneath it, ten oxen every cubit, and encircling the sea completely. The oxen were in two rows, cast all at the same time.

Solomon also made ten wash basins, placing five on the right side and five on the left. The basins were intended for use to rinse burnt offerings, and the sea was intended for use by the priests to wash in.

Solomon made ten gold lamp stands as he had been directed and set them in the Temple, five on the south side and five on the north side.

He also made ten tables and placed them in the Temple, five on the right side and five on the left side. He also constructed 100 gold basins.

the ten stands with their ten basins;

During the eighteenth year of the reign of King Jeroboam, Abijah became king over Judah.

Jehoiachin was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned for three months and ten days in Jerusalem, all the while doing what the LORD considered to be evil.

Next I selected twelve of the chief priests Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them

The Jews who lived near them kept coming to us, reporting at least ten times, "They'll attack us from every direction."

Our daily requirements were one ox and six choice sheep, along with various kinds of poultry prepared for me. Every ten days there was a delivery of an abundant supply of wine. Despite all this, I refused the governor's allotment, because demands on the people were heavy.