The insistence on exactly ten, repeated in the negative twice, is the text's most quoted line and the reason the number of the sefirot was never open to adjustment. Westcott's version is loose and the chapter and verse division of the Sefer Yetzirah varies between the Short, Long and Saadian recensions; this follows the division Westcott prints.
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TextTen are the numbers of the ineffable Sephiroth, ten and not nine, ten and not eleven. Learn this wisdom, and be wise in the understanding of it, investigate these numbers, and draw knowledge from them, fix the design in its purity, and pass from it to its Creator seated on his throne. 1 ReferenceSefer Yetzirah 1:4 (Westcott) 1 Reference Scheme Translation
TranslationSepher Yetzirah, the Book of Formation 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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10, Numbers Fixes the sefirot at ten.
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