Three Score and Ten

7 passages

1. Psalm 90:10

   The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty if we are strong— yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

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2. Acts 23:23

   Then he called two of his centurions and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen to go to Caesarea in the third hour of the night.

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3. Judges 12:14

   He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. And he judged Israel eight years.

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4. Deuteronomy 10:22

   Your fathers went down to Egypt, seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.

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5. Exodus 15:27

   Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the waters.

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6. Genesis 6:3

   So the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.”

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7. Numbers 33:9

   They set out from Marah and came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there.

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