In Religion
- The cubits of the height of the Temple building (II Chronicles 3:4)
- The age at which Moses died (Deut. 34:7).
- By extension, in Jewish tradition, to wish someone a long life, one says, "until 120."
- The number of Men of the Great Assembly who canonized the Books of the Tanakh and formulated the Jewish prayers
- The number of talents of gold Queen Sheba gave to King Solomon in tribute (I Kings 10:10)
- The number of princes King Darius set over his kingdom (Daniel 6:2)
- The summed weight in shekels of the gold spoons offered by each tribal prince of Israel (Num. 7:86).
- In astrology, when two planets in a person's chart are 120 degrees apart from each other, this is called a trine. This is supposed to bring good luck in the person's life.
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Famous quotes containing the word religion:
“Is there any religion but this, to know, that, wherever in the wide desert of being, the holy sentiment we cherish has opened into a flower, it blooms for me? If none sees it, I see it; I am aware, if I alone, of the greatness of the fact. Whilst it blooms, I will keep sabbath or holy time, and suspend my gloom, and my folly and jokes.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.”
—Eugène Ionesco (b. 1912)