Pirkei Avot §avot_05_01: With ten utterances the world was created.

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Source: Pirkei Avot — Ethics of the Fathers (Mishnah, c. AD 200) (avot_05_01) · external_aligned

With ten utterances the world was created. And what does this teach, for surely it could have been created with one utterance? But this was so in order to punish the wicked who destroy the world that was created with ten utterances, And to give a good reward to the righteous who maintain the world that was created with ten utterances.

Witnesses (Deuteronomy 19:15)

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