three scores and ten
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10The days of our years in them are seventy years. But in the powerful, they are eighty years, and more of these are with hardship and sorrow. For mildness has overwhelmed us, and we shall be corrected.
1A prayer of Moses, the man of God. O Lord, you have been our refuge from generation to generation. 2Before the mountains became, or the land was formed along with the world: from ages past, even to all ages, you are God. 3And, lest man be turned aside in humiliation, you have said: Be converted, O sons of men. 4For a thousand years before your eyes are like the days of yesterday, which have passed by, and they are like a watch of the night, 5which was held for nothing: so their years shall be. 6In the morning, he may pass away like grass; in the morning, he may flower and pass away. In the evening, he will fall, and harden, and become dry.
23Then, having called two centurions, he said to them: “Prepare two hundred soldiers, so that they may go as far as Caesarea, and seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen, for the third hour of the night.
3And God said: “My spirit shall not remain in man forever, because he is flesh. And so his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”
14And he had forty sons, and from them thirty grandsons, all riding upon seventy young donkeys. And he judged Israel for eight years.
22As seventy souls, your fathers descended into Egypt. And now, behold, the Lord your God has multiplied you to be like the stars of heaven.”
27Then the sons of Israel arrived in Elim, where there were twelve fountains of water and seventy palm trees. And they camped next to the waters.
9And setting out from Marah, they arrived at Elim, where there were twelve fountains of water and seventy palm trees. And they set up camp there.
16For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world, in order to judge the world, but in order that the world may be saved through him.
3And while they were fulfilling his orders, forty days passed. For this was the method of embalming dead bodies. And Egypt wept for him for seventy days.
16For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.
27Now the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in the land of Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who went into Egypt, were seventy.
32Now the number of the holocausts that the multitude offered was seventy bulls, one hundred rams, two hundred lambs.
1For behold, the sovereign Lord of hosts will take away, from Jerusalem and from Judah, the powerful and the strong: all the strength from bread, and all the strength from water; 2the strong man, and the man of war, the judge and the prophet, and the seer and the elder; 3the leader over fifty and the honorable in appearance; and the counselor, and the wise among builders, and the skillful in mystical speech. 4And I will provide children as their leaders, and the effeminate will rule over them. 5And the people will rush, man against man, and each one against his neighbor. The child shall rebel against the elder, and the ignoble against the noble. 6For a man will apprehend his brother, from the household of his own father, saying: “The vestment is yours. Be our leader, but let this ruin be under your hand.”