'Ten' in the Bible
Or what king, marching to encounter another king in war, does not first sit down and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand men to meet the one who is advancing against him with twenty thousand?
"Or what woman who has ten silver coins, if she loses one of them, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully till she finds it?
And as He entered a certain village, ten men met Him who were lepers and stood at a distance.
"Were not all ten made clean?" Jesus asked; "but where are the nine?
And he called ten of his servants and gave each of them a pound, instructing them to trade with the money during his absence.
"So the first came and said, "'Sir, your pound has produced ten pounds more.'
"'Well done, good servant,' he replied; 'because you have been faithful in a very small matter, be in authority over ten towns.'
"And he said to those who stood by, "'Take the pound from him and give it to him who has the ten pounds.'