Three Score and Ten

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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