Ten measures of impudence found its
way into the world; Mishan appropriated nine, leaving one to the rest of
the world. Ten measures of talk came into the world; women claimed nine,
leaving the tenth to the rest of the world. Ten measures of early rising
came into the world; they of Ethiopia received nine and the rest of the
world one only. Ten measures of sleep came to the world; the servants
took nine of them, leaving one measure to the rest of the world.
_Kiddushin_, fol. 49, col. 2.
Ten different sorts of people went up from Babylon:--(1.) Priests, (2.)
Levites, (3.) Israelites, (4.) Disqualified Cohanim, (5.) Freedmen, (6.)
Illegitimate, (7.) Nethinim, (8.) Unaffiliated ones, and (10.)
Foundlings.
Ibid., fol. 63, col. 1.
Ten characteristics mark the phlebotomist:--He walks sideling along; he
is proud; he stoops awhile before seating himself; he has an envious and
evil eye; he is a gourmand, but he defecates little at a time; he is
suspected of incontinence, robbery, and murder.
Ibid., fol. 82, col. 1.
Rabbi Chanena ben Agil asked Rabbi Cheya ben Abba, "Why does the word,
'signifying that it may be well with thee' not occur in the first copy
of the ten commandments (Exod. xx.) as it does in the second?" (Deut.
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