threescore

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If you lived past that stage, the average life expectancy was more around 70, the origin of the phrase ‘threescore years and ten’.

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(archaic) Sixty (60).

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noun

(archaic) Sixty (60).

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noun

(archaic) Sixty (60).

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If you lived past that stage, the average life expectancy was more around 70, the origin of the phrase ‘threescore years and ten’.

I'm all for helping people live out their threescore and ten in good health, but on average it doesn't save anybody money.

Most people who are born live threescore years or more.

Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

How long were these ancestors of ours living Threescore years and ten, modulo infant mortality (which was horrific) and various accidents and injuries, easily fatal if the sepsis set in.

Whether your allotted lifespan is four years or threescore and ten, if you understand that you don't know how much time you really have, then you are entitled to the full measure of decent regard and respect the melancholy of that understanding earns.

My home directory is usually populated almost exclusively with dotfiles and some threescore subdirs with 3ish-letter names like doc/ etc/ fun/ (I'm a gamer) git/ iso/ job/<site>/<recursehere> lib/ man/ pub/ (packages of my own programs) sbin/ src/ steam/ (yep) tmp/ var/ (notes, logs, etc) vr/...

Indeed, the soft ceiling on human longevity has not budged much since Psalms 90:10 was written about 3 millennia ago: > 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.

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"The days of our years are threescore years and ten" - Psalm 90:10, the King James Bible.

Put another way, "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".

"The days of our years are threescore years and ten (70 years old); and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years (80 years old), yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away." - Psalm 90 10 Edit: Not sure why this would be down-voted.

Lifespans did decline rapidly after the Flood, however, and it was recorded in Psalms that “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.” (Psalms 90:10).