Three score and ten

• three score and ten: the span of a life, seventy years, as given in the Bible: Psalms 90:10. "The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away."

• three score and ten: according to Joseph Charles Mardrus, Introduction to the Koran 22, Muslim exegetes believe that every word of the Koran has seventy different meanings, one for each year of a man's life → sytty in line 19 below