Without parable Christ spoke not.
Ten in multiples, hundred, thousand and thousands of millions. Are metphors used in parables to represent the whole or perfect .
Where five would represent redemption. If one sheep, a picture of redemption is lost the whole (100) is put in jeopardy. Five of the virgins were the chaste virgin bride of Christ the church.
Luke 15:4 What man of you, having an
hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find
it?
Below the wages were changed every time using ten to indicate the whole
Genesis 31:7 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages
ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
Ten in multiples used in the same way .
Genesis 18:31-32 King James Version (KJV) And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be
twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for
twenty's sake. And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for
ten's sake.
Ten representing all the goods
Genesis 24:10And the servant took
ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for
all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.
Below God desiring we give him the whole tithe it is represented by tenth .
Genesis 28:22 And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the
tenth unto thee.
Again in multiples of ten hundred thousand they make up the whole .
Genesis 32:14-16 King James Version (KJV) Two
hundred she goats, and
twenty he goats, two
hundred ewes, and
twenty rams,
Thirty milch camels with their colts, f
orty kine, and
ten bulls,
twenty she asses, and
ten foals. And he delivered
them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.
Many examples folow .