In Religion
- Seventy souls went down to Egypt to begin the Hebrew's Egyptian exile (Genesis 46:27)
- According to Jewish tradition, there is a core of 70 nations and 70 world languages.
- In Jewish tradition, there were 70 men in the Great Sanhedrin, the Supreme Court of ancient Israel. (Sanhedrin 1:4).
- Seventy elders were assembled by Moses on God's command in the desert (Numbers 11:16-30)
- 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 the Gospel of Matthew, 18:21-22, Jesus tells Peter to forgive people seventy times seven times.
- In the Gospel of Luke 10:1-24, Jesus appoints Seventy Disciples and sends them out in pairs to preach the Gospel.
- Seventy, a priesthood office of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- The Old Testament allots three score and ten (70 years) for a man's life (Psalm 90:10)
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“The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.”
—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)
“All Protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance; it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)