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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Famous quotes containing the word religion:
“Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing.... Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn’t the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)
“Those to whom God has imparted religion by feeling of the heart are very fortunate and are rightly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we can give it only by reasoning, waiting for God to give it by feeling of the heart—without which faith is only human and useless for salvation.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)