Ten miracles were performed for our ancestors in Egypt and ten [miracles] at the Sea [of Reeds].  (Ten Plagues the Holy One, Blessed is He, brought on the Egyptians in Egypt and ten [plagues] at the Sea [of Reeds].)  [With] ten trials our forefathers tried the Holy One, Blessed is He, in the Wilderness, as it says: They have tried Me now ten times and have not lis-tened to My voice.

Ten miracles were performed for our ancestors in the Holy Temple: (1) No woman ever miscarried because of the fragrant smell of the sacrificial meats, (2) the sacrificial meats never became spoiled, (3) a fly was never seen in the [Temple] butcher-ing-area, (4) a seminal discharge never occurred to the Kohen Gadol on Yom Kippur, (5) rains never extinguished the fires of the Altar Pyre, (6) the winds never overcame the column of smoke [rising from atop the Altar], (7) no cause for disqualification was ever found in the omer, the shtei halechem or the lechem hapanim, (8) they [who assembled in the Temple] would be standing crowded together yet prostrated themselves in ample space, (9) no snake nor scorpion ever harmed [anyone] in Je-rusalem, (10) and no man ever said to his friend, “The space is too restrictive for me to stay in Jerusalem.”