Hosea 8:12

"I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law; but they are counted as a strange thing."

This statement clearly assumes that Hosea knew a written form of Torah. Its precise content can only be guessed from clues like Hosea 4:2 with its reflection of the Decalogue.[22]

Of course, there is another way to KNOW exactly what was in that TORAH, and that is by reading the Hebrew scriptures of the Old Testament. Only that source will answer to "the ten thousand things" mentioned here. The so-called scholarship which seeks to destroy the integrity of the Pentateuch has failed; and scholars should not long be burdened by their pedantic fulminations against it.

"Ten thousand things of my law ..." As Hailey said, "This indicates the complete fullness of God's law in the covenant he had made with the nation."[23] It would have been impossible to choose an expression which any more eloquently teaches this. The covenant was a specific and detailed thing, having been written in its entirety by God Himself; it concerned practically every aspect of the life of the people; and it is impossible to construe a passage like this as being some kind of an extravagant reference to merely a few maxims which had been handed down among the people. NO! It is the Decalogue and the whole prior portion of the Old Testament that dramatically surfaces in such a word as this. "This law was extensive enough to cover every behavior of life, every thought, deed, and motive."[24] In the whole history of the world, there has never been anything else except the Law of Moses that undertook to do such a thing as this.