Thematic Bible: Seven, the number of perfection seventy


Thematic Bible



And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.


And Jehovah said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with thee.




Seventy weeks are decreed upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish transgression, 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.


Now after these things the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself was about to come.


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