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In Judaism, the ten adult Jewish men required for public prayer to take place, either in a synagogue or temple, or in the home, as in the ceremony of brit milah (ritual circumcision) performed on a newborn boy.



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Then he left his home and fled from horse-rearing Argos and came to Minyan Orchomenus.
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She was youngest daughter to Amphion son of Iasus and king of Minyan Orchomenus, and was Queen in Pylos.
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