The Lord created us to be separate from Himself, so that He could love us. He thus allows us to act contrary to His will -- to want what is evil and to believe what is false. When we accept the Lord, though -- by learning what's true and determining to live according to it -- we can let Him place inside us a love for what is good. That is our "inheritance.

10688. 'The ten words' means all God's truths within it. This is clear from the meaning of 'ten' as all, dealt with in 4638; and from the meaning of 'words' as Divine Truths, dealt with in 9987. This is the reason why the commandments on those tablets were ten in number.