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. ”
Mozus 7: 7.) Tolaik šāda vecuma sasniegšanu acīmredzot uzskatīja par kaut ko sevišķu, jo Mozus pats rakstīja: ” Mūsu dzīvības laiks ir septiņdesmit gadi un, ja kāds ļoti stiprs, astoņdesmit gadi. ” ( Psalms 90: 10.)