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Score The term "threescore and ten" is limited to the King James Version, simply because the term is an old English term. In the past the number twenty was referred to as one "score." Thus "threescore and ten" was 3 times 20 plus 10, or 70.
There is a common phase nowadays that "we are all living longer today". It is amazing to reflect on the fact that Moses wrote that we should live to 70-80 in this Psalm (90:10) some 3,500 years ago!
In Moses day, life expectancy for an Egyptian was around 45. At the same time the Hebrews were living to over 70, which is the average life expectancy of a man living in the UK today! Sadly, even today, due to the ravages of diseases such as AIDS in some African countries like Botswana, average life expectancy is only 41!
Why did they live longer back then?
The Hebrews were kept clean physically, morally and spiritually because they were obedient to God's laws, even though they did not fully understand why, they were still obedient. Jehovah's Law protected and guided the Israelites in every facet of life. For example, the regulations on diet, hygiene, and quarantine spared them from many of the diseases that ravaged other nations. Only after the discovery of bacteria in the 19th century did science begin to catch up with God's Law.
In England just over 100 years ago, a surgeon would move from handling a disease ridden corpse in the mortuary to operating on a live subject, using the same instruments and without even washing his hands! He didn't know about bacteria or cross infection, but 3,500 years ago the law said something very different in Numbers 19:11-16.
The Law of Moses also contained concepts of hygiene and disease control, such as the quarantining of sick people and the disposal of human waste, that harmonize with current science. (Deuteronomy 23:13, Leviticus 13:1-59; 14:38, 46;) This is remarkable considering that much of Egyptian medicine in Moses' day was a dangerous mixture of quackery and superstition. In developing lands today, millions could be spared from disease and premature death if the standards of hygiene taught by Moses were practiced.
As an aside, US President Lincoln's famous Gettysburg Address begins with Four score and.....
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Where are the verses in the Bible that talk about how long a man will live?
I want to know where in the Bible it tells of how many years a person is guaranteed. I believe it is threescore and ten but I think there are several references to that answer.
What man in the Bible had 40 sons?
13And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel. 14And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.
Threescore and two thousand and seven hundred mean?
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What does three score and ten years mean?
Three score and tenMeaningThe span of a life. In the days that this was coined that was considered to be seventy years.OriginThreescore used to be used for sixty, in the way that we still use a dozen for twelve, and (occasionally) score for twenty. It has long since died out in that usage but is still remembered in this phrase. Threescore goes back to at least 1388, as in this from John Wyclif's Bible, Leviticus 12, at that date:"Thre scoor and sixe daies."There are numerous uses of 'threescore' in the Bible. Most of them refer to its simple meaning as the number sixty, for example:"...threescore and ten bullocks, an hundred rams, and two hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt offering to the Lord."There is a use of it that refers to the span of our lives, in Psalms 90:The days of our years are threescore years and ten;and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years,yet is their strength labor and sorrow;for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.As with many other Biblical phrases, this was picked up by Shakespeare. In Macbeth, we have:Threescore and ten I can remember well:Within the volume of which time I have seenHours dreadful and things strange; but this sore nightHath trifled former knowings.It's an odd fact that, although Shakespeare took numerous phrases and examples of imagery from the Bible, the word Bible doesn't appear in any of his plays.
What does threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred mean in the Bible?
A score means 20, just like a dozen means 12. ANSWER This is found in Numbers 1:27 "Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Judah, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred." One score is 20 as the above answerer has stated. The "and's" in the equation simply mean to add them together. threescore (20x3) and (+) 14,000 and (+) 600. This would be a total of = 74,600 total men from 20 years of age and up that were counted able to go to war, from the tribe of Judah.
