If Cain is to be avenged seven times as much, then Lamech seventy-seven times!”

When Kenan had lived 70 years, he became the father of Mahalalel.

When Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Counting the two sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt, all the people of the household of Jacob who were in Egypt numbered seventy.

They took forty days, for that is the full time needed for embalming. The Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.