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And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been wrought in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of Jehovah; for it is a terrible thing that I do with thee.
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.
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And Balaamsaid unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the LORD will come to meet me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to an high place.
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