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Friday, March 24, 2023

In Jewish tradition:
- Seventy souls went down to Egypt to begin the Hebrews' Egyptian exile (Genesis 46:27).
- There is a core of 70 nations and 70 world languages, paralleling the 70 names in the Table of Nations.
- There were 70 men in the Great Sanhedrin, the Supreme Court of ancient Israel. (Sanhedrin 1:4.)
- According to the Jewish Aggada, there are 70 perspectives ("faces") to the Torah (Numbers Rabbah 13:15).
- Seventy elders were assembled by Moses on God's command in the desert (Numbers 11:16–30).
- Psalm 90:10 allots three score and ten (70 years) for a man's life, and the Mishnah attributes that age to "strength" (Avot 5:32), as one who survives that age is described by the verse as "the strong".
- Ptolemy II Philadelphus ordered 72 Jewish elders to translate the Torah into Greek; the result was the Septuagint (from the Latin for "seventy"). The Roman numeral seventy, LXX, is the scholarly symbol for the Septuagint.
In Christianity:
- In Matthew 18:21–22, Jesus tells Peter to forgive people seventy times seven times.
- In Luke 10:1–24, Jesus appoints Seventy Disciples and sends them out in pairs to preach the Gospel.
Seventy is a priesthood office in the Latter Day Saint religion.
In Islamic history and in Islamic interpretation the number 70 or 72 is most often and generally hyperbole for an infinite amount:

There are 70 dead among the Prophet Muhammad's adversaries during the Battle of Badr.
70 of the Prophet Muhammad's followers are martyred at the Battle of Uhud.
In Shia Islam, there are 70 martyrs among Imam Hussein's followers during the Battle of Karbala.