Jewish Babylonian Talmud – Tract Aboth (Fathers of the Synagogue)–Chapter V.
p. 104 CHAPTER V. MISHNA A. By ten sayings the world was created; and why so? Could it not have been created by one saying? But it was that vengeance might be taken on the wicked, who destroy the world that was created by ten sayings; and to give a goodly reward to the righteous, who maintain