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Ancient Near East
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In ancient Near Eastern literature as well as in the Hebrew Bible, the number seventy frequently appears as a symbolic figure representing completeness, leadership, or a full social unit. Notably in the Hebrew Bible, it connects the seventy nations in the "table of nations" in Genesis 10 with earlier ANE traditions of patron deities. It often signals a structured and significant group, whether referring to divine families, political bodies, or kinship networks. Its repeated use across diverse cultural settings suggests that seventy conveyed a recognized sense of order and authority, deeply rooted in the region’s social and religious imagination.
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