By his day, living to that age was evidently considered unusual, for he wrote: “In themselves the days of our years are seventy years; and... because of special mightiness they are eighty years. ”
( नीतिसूत्रे ९: ९) यहोवाने जेव्हा मोशेवर एक जबाबदारी सोपवली तेव्हा तो ८० वर्षांचा होता.