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The number seventy holds significant symbolic and literal importance throughout the Bible, appearing in various contexts that underscore its spiritual and historical relevance. It often represents completeness, judgment, and the fulfillment of divine purposes.

Old Testament References

1. The Nations: In Genesis 10, often referred to as the Table of Nations, seventy descendants of Noah are listed, representing the nations of the world. This enumeration signifies the completeness of the post-flood human race.

2. Jacob's Family: Genesis 46:27 states, "And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were two persons. Thus, all the members of Jacob’s family who went to Egypt were seventy in all." This number symbolizes the foundational family of Israel, marking the beginning of their sojourn in Egypt.

3. Elders of Israel: In Exodus 24:1, God instructs Moses, "Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and you are to worship at a distance." The seventy elders represent the leadership and governance structure of Israel, chosen to assist Moses in administering justice and maintaining order (Numbers 11:16-17).

4. Years of Captivity: The prophet Jeremiah foretold a seventy-year period of Babylonian captivity for Judah as a consequence of their disobedience (Jeremiah 25:11-12). This period represents a complete cycle of judgment and eventual restoration.

New Testament References

1. The Sending of the Seventy: In Luke 10:1, Jesus appoints seventy (or seventy-two, depending on manuscript variations) disciples and sends them out in pairs to preach the kingdom of God. "After this, the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of Him to every town and place He was about to visit." This mission signifies the extension of Jesus' ministry and the preparation for the spread of the Gospel.

2. Forgiveness: In Matthew 18:22, Jesus emphasizes the boundless nature of forgiveness, instructing Peter to forgive "not seven times, but seventy times seven." This expression underscores the completeness and perfection of forgiveness expected from believers.

Symbolic Interpretations

The number seventy often symbolizes a period of testing, judgment, and eventual restoration. It is associated with divine order and the fulfillment of God's plans. In Jewish tradition, seventy is also significant in the context of the Sanhedrin, the supreme council and tribunal during the Second Temple period, which consisted of seventy members.

Theological Significance

From a theological perspective, the use of seventy in the Bible highlights God's sovereignty and the unfolding of His divine plan through history. It serves as a reminder of God's faithfulness in fulfilling His promises and the importance of obedience and repentance in the life of His people. The number's recurrence in both the Old and New Testaments underscores the continuity of God's redemptive work from Israel to the Church.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Seventy weeks

A prophetic period mentioned in Dan. 9:24, and usually interpreted on the "year-day" theory, i.e., reckoning each day for a year. This period will thus represent 490 years. This is regarded as the period which would elapse till the time of the coming of the Messiah, dating "from the going forth of the commandment to restore and rebuild Jerusalem" i.e., from the close of the Captivity.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Seven times ten; one more than sixty-nine.

2. (n.) The sum of seven times ten; seventy units or objects.

3. (n.) A symbol representing seventy units, as 70, or lxx.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

SEVENTY DISCIPLES

The account of the designation and mission of these is found only in Luke 10. Some have therefore sought to maintain that we have here only a confused variant of the appointment of the Twelve; but this is impossible in the light of Luke's account of the Twelve in chapter 9.

The documents vary as between the numbers seventy and seventy-two, so that it is impossible to determine which is the correct reading; and internal evidence does not help at all in this case. There is nothing in the function or circumstances to indicate any reason for the specific number.

Commentators have sought parallels in the seventy elders chosen to assist Moses (Numbers 11) and suppose that Jesus was incidentally indicating Himself as the "prophet like unto Moses" whom God would raise up.

Again, the Jews popularly reckoned the "number of the nations of the earth" at seventy (compare Genesis 10), and some have supposed Jesus to be thus indicating that His gospel is universal. Attention is called to the fact that the Seventy are not forbidden to go to Gentiles and that their commission probably included Peraea, where many Gentiles were to be found. Some, again, have supposed that Jesus had in mind the Jewish Sanhedrin, composed of seventy (or seventy-two), and that the appointment of a like number to extend the work of His kingdom was a parabolic recognition that as the Jews were officially rejecting Him, so He was rejecting them as agents for the work of the kingdom. It is impossible to speak with any certainty as to any of these suggestions. It is to be noted that there is the same confusion between the numbers seventy and seventy-two in all four instances, as also in the tradition as to the number of translators of the Septuagint.

Inasmuch as no further mention is made of these workers, it is to be understood that they were appointed for a temporary ministry. Tradition names several of them and identifies them with disciples active after Pentecost. While it is probable that some of these were witnesses later, the tradition is worthless in details. The mission of these and the reason assigned for their appointment are essentially the same as in the case of the Twelve. Jesus is now completing His last popular campaign in preaching and introducing the kingdom of heaven. The employing of these in this service is in line with the permanent ideal of Christianity, which makes no distinction between the "laymen" and the "clergy" in responsibility and service. Jesus was perhaps employing all whose experience and sympathy made them fit for work in the harvest that was so plenteous while the laborers were few. He found seventy such now as He would find a hundred and twenty such after His ascension (Acts 1:15).

William Owen Carver

SEVENTY WEEKS

The "seventy weeks" of the prophecy in Daniel 9:24-27 have long been a subject of controversy in the critical schools. The conflicting views may be seen very fully in Dr. Driver's Daniel, 94;, 143;, and Dr. Pusey's Daniel the Prophet, lectionaries II, III, IV. On both sides it is agreed that the "weeks" in this prophecy are to be interpreted as "weeks of years," i.e. the 70 weeks represent 490 years. This period, commencing with "the going forth of the commandments to restore and build Jerus" (Daniel 9:25), is divided into three parts, 7 weeks (49 years), 62 weeks (434 years), and one week (7 years). The 69 weeks extend to the appearance of "an anointed one (Hebrew "Messiah"), the prince" (Daniel 9:25), who, after the 62 weeks, shall be "cut off" (Daniel 9:26), apparently in the "midst" of the 70th week (Daniel 9:27). On the traditional view (see Pusey), the 69 weeks (483 years) mark the interval from the decree to rebuild Jerusalem till the appearance of Christ; and if, with Pusey, the decree in question be taken to be that of the 7th year of Artaxerxes (457-56 B.C.; the mission of Ezra; compare Ezra 7:8;), confirmed and extended in the 20th year of the same king (mission of Nehemiah; compare Nehemiah 2:1;), the 483 years run out about 27-28 A.D., when our Lord's public ministry began. On the other hand, the view which supposes that the Book of Daniel belongs wholly to the Maccabean age, and does not here contain genuine prediction, is under the necessity of making the 490 years terminate with the reign of Antiochus Epiphanes (171-164 B.C.), and this, it is admitted, cannot be done. To give time the violent expedient is adopted of dating the commencement of the 70 weeks from the prophecy of Jeremiah of the 70 years' captivity, or of the rebuilding of Jerusalem (606 or 587 B.C.), i.e. before the captivity had begun. Even this, as Dr. Driver admits (p. 146), leaves us in 171 B.C., some 67 years short of the duration of the 62 weeks, and a huge blunder of the writer of Daniel has to be assumed. The divergent reckonings are legion, and are mutually contradictory (see table in Pusey, p. 217). To invalidate the older view Dr. Driver avails himself of the altered renderings of Daniel 9:25 and 27 in the English Revised Version. It is to be noted, however, that the American Standard Revised Version does not follow the English Revised Version in these changes. Thus, whereas the English Revised Version reads in 9:25, "Unto the anointed one; the prince, shall be seven weeks: and threescore and two weeks, it shall be built again," and accordingly takes "the anointed one" of 9:26 to be a distinct person, the American Standard Revised Version (as also the English Revised Version margin) reads, as in the King James Version, "shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks." Again, where the English Revised Version reads in Daniel 9:27 "For the half of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease," the American Standard Revised Version (and the English Revised Version margin) has as formerly, "In the midst of the week he shall cause" etc. (conversely, in 9:25 the American Revised Version margin gives the English Revised Version rendering). The question cannot be discussed here, but it is believed that the traditional interpretation may yet claim acceptance from those who do not accept the postulates of the newer critical writers.

See DANIEL; JUBILEES, BOOK OF.

James Orr

SEVENTY YEARS

The period assigned by Jeremiah for the duration of the Jewish exile in Babylon (Jeremiah 25:11, 12; Jeremiah 29:10; compare 2 Chronicles 36:21 Ezra 1:1 Daniel 9:2). If the period be reckoned from the date of the first deportation in the 4th year of Jehoiakim (2 Kings 24:1 2 Chronicles 36:6 Daniel 1:1 by another reckoning calls it the 3rd year), i.e. 606 B.C., till the decree of Cyrus, 536 B.C., the prediction was fulfilled to a year.

See CAPTIVITY.

SEVENTY

sev'-n-ti (shibh`im; hebdomekonta).

See NUMBER.

WEEKS, SEVENTY

See SEVENTY WEEKS.

YEARS, SEVENTY

See SEVENTY YEARS.

Greek

1440. hebdomekonta -- seventy
... seventy. Part of Speech: Indeclinable Numeral (Adjective) Transliteration: hebdomekonta
Phonetic Spelling: (heb-dom-ay'-kon-tah) Short Definition: seventy ...
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1441. hebdomekontakis -- seventy times
... seventy times. Part of Speech: Adverb Transliteration: hebdomekontakis Phonetic
Spelling: (heb-dom-ay-kon-tak-is) Short Definition: seventy times Definition ...
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1803. hex -- six
... Word Origin a prim. cardinal number Definition six NASB Word Usage
forty-six* (1), seventy-six* (1), six (10), sixty-six* (1). six. ...
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4002. pente -- five
... Word Origin a prim. cardinal number Definition five NASB Word Usage fifty*
(1), five (34), seventy-five* (1), three* (1). five. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

7657. shibim -- seventy (a cardinal number)
... seventy (a cardinal number). Transliteration: shibim Phonetic Spelling: (shib-eem')
Short Definition: seventy. Word Origin from sheba Definition seventy (a card ...
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Library

Fragment xvi. On the Seventy Weeks of Daniel. ...
... of Julius Africanus. Fragment XVI. On the Seventy Weeks of Daniel.? On
the Seventy Weeks of Daniel. 1. This passage, therefore ...
/.../africanus/the writings of julius africanus/fragment xvi on the seventy.htm

The Twelve and the Seventy.
... CHAPTER III. THE TWELVE AND THE SEVENTY. It ... preachers. Part of these have since
been known as "The Twelve," and the rest as "The Seventy." ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/killen/the ancient church/chapter iii the twelve and.htm

The Same Hippolytus on the Seventy Apostles.
... The same Hippolytus on the Seventy Apostles. [2027] ... It may be meant for, "these
two of the seventy were scattered," etc. [2031] John 6:53, 66. ...
/.../the extant works and fragments of hippolytus/the same hippolytus on the.htm

On the Mission of the Seventy Disciples, and Christ's Charge to ...
... Creator. Chapter XXIV."On the Mission of the Seventy Disciples, and Christ's
Charge to Them Precedents Drawn from the Old Testament. ...
/.../tertullian/the five books against marcion/chapter xxiv on the mission of.htm

Choice of the Seventy. (Luke, X. ) --Import of the Number "Seventy ...
... CHAPTER XII. CHRIST'S RETURN FROM CAPERNAUM TO JERUSALEM THROUGH SAMARIA. Section
203. Choice of the Seventy. (Luke, x.)"Import of the Number "Seventy.". ...
/.../section 203 choice of the.htm

Instructions to the Seventy on their Mission. (Luke, X. ) the Wo ...
... THROUGH SAMARIA. Section 204. Instructions to the Seventy on their Mission.
(Luke, x.) The Wo to the Unbelieving Cities. The Spirit ...
/.../section 204 instructions to the.htm

Fragment Xlviii. As Therefore Seventy Tongues are Indicated by ...
... Fragment XLVIII. As therefore seventy tongues are indicated by number, and
from dispersion the tongues are gathered? As [4896] therefore ...
/.../fragment xlviii as therefore seventy.htm

A Man of Seventy Preaches to 30,000 People
... Chapter 16. Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; At 70, Wesley
Preaches to 30,000 People A Man of Seventy Preaches to 30,000 People. ...
/.../wesley/the journal of john wesley/a man of seventy preaches.htm

The Mission of the Seventy.
... THE MINISTRY IN PEREA THE MISSION OF THE SEVENTY. And he arose and cometh
into the borders of Judaea and beyond the Jordan; and ...
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The Return of the Seventy.
... THE MINISTRY IN PEREA THE RETURN OF THE SEVENTY. And the seventy returned with joy,
saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject unto us in thy name." ...
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Thesaurus

Seventy (97 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary Seventy weeks. ... 1. (a.) Seven times ten; one more than
sixty-nine. 2. (n.) The sum of seven times ten; seventy units or objects. ...
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Seventy-five (12 Occurrences)
Seventy-five. Seventy, Seventy-five. Seventy-four . Multi-Version
Concordance Seventy-five (12 Occurrences). John 19:39 Nicodemus ...
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Seventy-two (9 Occurrences)
Seventy-two. Seventy-three, Seventy-two. Sever . Multi-Version
Concordance Seventy-two (9 Occurrences). Luke 10:1 And ...
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Seventy-four (4 Occurrences)
Seventy-four. Seventy-five, Seventy-four. Seventy-seven . Noah Webster's
Dictionary (n.) A naval vessel carrying seventy-four guns. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Seventy-three (4 Occurrences)
Seventy-three. Seventy-six, Seventy-three. Seventy-two . Multi-Version
Concordance Seventy-three (4 Occurrences). Numbers 3:43 All ...
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Seventy-seven (4 Occurrences)
Seventy-seven. Seventy-four, Seventy-seven. Seventy-sevenfold .
Multi-Version Concordance Seventy-seven (4 Occurrences). Genesis ...
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Seventy-six (2 Occurrences)
Seventy-six. Seventy-sevenfold, Seventy-six. Seventy-three . Multi-Version
Concordance Seventy-six (2 Occurrences). Acts 27:37 In ...
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Seventy-sevenfold (1 Occurrence)
Seventy-sevenfold. Seventy-seven, Seventy-sevenfold. Seventy-six .
Multi-Version Concordance Seventy-sevenfold (1 Occurrence). Genesis ...
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Disciples (277 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia SEVENTY DISCIPLES. The account of the
designation and mission of these is found only in Luke 10. ...
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Weighing (39 Occurrences)
... Numbers 7:13 and his offering was one silver dish, the weight thereof was a hundred
and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, after the shekel ...
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Resources

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Seventy (97 Occurrences)

Matthew 18:22
Jesus said to him, "I don't tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 10:1
Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place, where he was about to come.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 10:17
The seventy returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!"
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

John 19:39
Nicodemus too--he who at first had visited Jesus by night--came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, in weight about seventy or eighty pounds.
(WEY NIV)

Acts 7:14
Joseph sent, and summoned Jacob, his father, and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.
(WEB WEY BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Acts 23:23
He called to himself two of the centurions, and said, "Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen, and two hundred men armed with spears, at the third hour of the night."
(WEB WEY BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Acts 27:37
In all, we were two hundred seventy-six souls on the ship.
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Genesis 4:24
If Cain will be avenged seven times, truly Lamech seventy-seven times."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 5:12
Kenan lived seventy years, and became the father of Mahalalel.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Genesis 5:31
All the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy-seven years, then he died.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Genesis 11:26
Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Genesis 12:4
So Abram went, as Yahweh had spoken to him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 25:7
These are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived: one hundred seventy-five years.
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 46:27
The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy.
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 50:3
Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for him for seventy days.
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 1:5
All the souls who came out of Jacob's body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 15:27
They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 24:1
He said to Moses, "Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 24:9
Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 38:28
Of the one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Exodus 38:29
The brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand four hundred shekels.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Numbers 1:27
Seventy-four thousand, six hundred of the tribe of Judah were numbered.
(BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Numbers 2:4
His division, and those who were numbered of them, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Numbers 3:43
All the firstborn males according to the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those who were numbered of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three.
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Numbers 3:46
For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel, who exceed the number of the Levites,
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Numbers 7:13
and his offering was: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 7:19
He offered for his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 7:25
gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 7:31
gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 7:37
gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 7:43
gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 7:49
gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 7:55
gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 7:61
gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 7:67
gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 7:73
gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 7:79
gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 7:85
each silver platter weighing one hundred thirty shekels, and each bowl seventy; all the silver of the vessels two thousand four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 11:16
Yahweh said to Moses, "Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them to the Tent of Meeting, that they may stand there with you.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 11:24
Moses went out, and told the people the words of Yahweh; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them around the Tent.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 11:25
Yahweh came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders: and it happened that when the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 26:22
These are the families of Judah according to those who were numbered of them, seventy-six thousand five hundred.
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Numbers 31:32
Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Numbers 31:33
and seventy-two thousand head of cattle,
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Numbers 31:37
and Yahweh's tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five.
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Numbers 31:38
The cattle were thirty-six thousand; of which Yahweh's tribute was seventy-two.
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Numbers 33:9
They traveled from Marah, and came to Elim: and in Elim were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees; and they encamped there.
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 10:22
Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Judges 1:7
Adoni-Bezek said, "Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their food under my table: as I have done, so God has requited me." They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Judges 8:14
He caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him: and he described for him the princes of Succoth, and its elders, seventy-seven men.
(WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Judges 8:30
Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body; for he had many wives.
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Judges 9:2
"Please speak in the ears of all the men of Shechem,'Is it better for you that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are seventy persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you?' Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh."
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Judges 9:4
They gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and light fellows, who followed him.
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Judges 9:5
He went to his father's house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one stone: but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Judges 9:18
and you have risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, seventy persons, on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother);
(WEB BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Judges 9:24
that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.
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Judges 9:56
Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father, in killing his seventy brothers;
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Judges 12:14
He had forty sons and thirty sons' sons, who rode on seventy donkey colts: and he judged Israel eight years.
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1 Samuel 6:19
He struck of the men of Beth Shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of Yahweh, he struck of the people fifty thousand seventy men; and the people mourned, because Yahweh had struck the people with a great slaughter.
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2 Samuel 24:15
So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to the appointed time; and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.
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1 Kings 5:15
Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;
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2 Kings 10:1
Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, even the elders, and to those who brought up the sons of Ahab, saying,
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2 Kings 10:6
Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, "If you are on my side, and if you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by tomorrow this time." Now the king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who brought them up.
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2 Kings 10:7
It happened, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and killed them, even seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jezreel.
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1 Chronicles 21:5
Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew sword: and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew sword.
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1 Chronicles 21:14
So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel; and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
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2 Chronicles 2:2
Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand men who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.
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2 Chronicles 2:18
He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to set the people at work.
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2 Chronicles 29:32
The number of the burnt offerings which the assembly brought was seventy bulls, one hundred rams, and two hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt offering to Yahweh.
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2 Chronicles 36:21
to fulfill the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths: for as long as it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
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Ezra 2:3
The children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred seventy-two.
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Ezra 2:4
The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two.
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Ezra 2:5
The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy-five.
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Ezra 2:36
The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy-three.
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Ezra 2:40
The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy-four.
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Ezra 8:7
Of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah; and with him seventy males.
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Ezra 8:14
Of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zabbud; and with them seventy males.
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Ezra 8:35
The children of the captivity, who had come out of exile, offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel, twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve male goats for a sin offering: all this was a burnt offering to Yahweh.
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Nehemiah 7:8
The children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred seventy-two.
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Nehemiah 7:9
The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two.
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Nehemiah 7:39
The priests: The children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy-three.
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Nehemiah 7:43
The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodevah, seventy-four.
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Nehemiah 11:19
Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brothers, who kept watch at the gates, were one hundred seventy-two.
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Esther 9:16
The other Jews who were in the king's provinces gathered themselves together, defended their lives, had rest from their enemies, and killed seventy-five thousand of those who hated them; but they didn't lay their hand on the plunder.
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Psalms 90:10
The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
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Isaiah 23:15
It will come to pass in that day that Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. After the end of seventy years it will be to Tyre like in the song of the prostitute.
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Isaiah 23:17
It will happen after the end of seventy years that Yahweh will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her wages, and will play the prostitute with all the kingdoms of the world on the surface of the earth.
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Jeremiah 25:11
This whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
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Jeremiah 25:12
It shall happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, says Yahweh, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate forever.
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Jeremiah 29:10
For thus says Yahweh, After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
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Ezekiel 8:11
There stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel; and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, every man with his censer in his hand; and the odor of the cloud of incense went up.
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Ezekiel 41:12
The building that was before the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits.
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Daniel 9:2
in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years about which the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.
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Daniel 9:24
Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
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Zechariah 1:12
Then the angel of Yahweh replied, "O Yahweh of Armies, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?"
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Zechariah 7:5
"Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying,'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?
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Zechariah 7:6
When ye fasted with mourning in the fifth and in the seventh 'months' -- even these seventy years -- did ye keep the fast 'to' Me -- Me? And when ye eat, and when ye drink, is it not ye who are eating, and ye who are drinking?
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Subtopics

Seventy: 70 Weeks in the Vision of Daniel

Seventy: The Jews in Captivity in Babylon for Seventy Years

Seventy: The Senate of the Israilites Composed of Seventy Elders

Seventy: The Seventy Disciples Sent Forth by Jesus (Though the Best Greek Mss Have "Seventy-Two")

Related Terms

Seventy-five (12 Occurrences)

Seventy-two (9 Occurrences)