70 (number) - in Religion

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)