Matthew 18:22

Λέγει αὐτῷ ὁ Ἰησοῦς, Οὐ λέγω σοι ἕως ἑπτάκις, ἀλλ᾽ ἕως ἑβδομηκοντάκις ἑπτά.

RBT Greek Interlinear:

Strongs 3004; Legei; Λέγει; is saying; V-PIA-3S

Strongs 846; autō; αὐτῷ; to himself; PPro-DM3S

Strongs 3588; ho; ὁ; the; Art-NMS

Strongs 2424; Iēsous; Ἰησοῦς; Salvation; N-NMS

Strongs 3756; Ou; Οὐ; Not; Adv

Strongs 3004; legō; λέγω; I am saying; V-PIA-1S

Strongs 4771; soi; σοι; you; PPro-D2S

Strongs 2193; heōs; ἕως; until; Prep

Strongs 2034; heptakis; ἑπτάκις; seven times; Adv

Strongs 235; alla; ἀλλὰ; but; Conj

Strongs 2193; heōs; ἕως; until; Prep

Strongs 1441; hebdomēkontakis; ἑβδομηκοντάκις; seventy times; Adv

Strongs 2033; hepta; ἑπτά; seven; Adj-GNP

RBT Translation:

He is saying to himself, the Salvation, "I am not speaking to yourself up to seven times, but rather up to seventy times, seven."³⁷

Seventy times, seven.

"And toward Drawn Out ("Moses") he said, "Climb up toward He Is your eternal self, and Inner Conceived One ("Aaron"), Volunteer ("Nadab"), My Father is Himself ("Abihu"), and seventy from aged men of God Straightened, and you all have bowed to yourselves from a remote time/place."

(Exodus 24:1 RBT)

"Also the Tongue is a fire, the World of the Unjust one; the Tongue is set down within the Limbs of ourselves, she who is staining the whole Body, and she who is setting on fire the Wheel of Genesis, and she who is being set on fire below the Valley of Hell ("Gehenna").

(James 3:6 RBT)

LITV Translation:
Jesus said to him, I do not say to you, Until seven times, but, Until seventy times seven.

ESV Translation:
Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times.

Footnotes

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Genesis 4:24

Jesus spoke verbatim here what is in the Septuagint translation of Genesis 4:24, εβδομηκοντάκις επτά. The correct NT translations will have seventy times, seven which is two separate numbers (cf. Meyer’s NT Commentary). Jesus said to him, ‘I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times, seven.’” (Matt. 18:21-22). Lamech is 70 and therefore avenged seventyfold. There were 70 sons of Ahab in Samaria (2 Kings 10), 70 breaths born to Heel in Egypt (Exodus 1:5), 70 elders with Moses who went up to see God from afar (Exodus 24:1), 70 other elders (Num. 11:16), 70 kings (Judg. 1:7), 70 struck down by God (1 Sam. 6:19), Gideon’s 70 sons (Judg. 8:30), 70 offspring riding 70 donkeys (Judg. 12:14), and 70 elders of the House of Israel worshiping idols (Ezekiel 8:11). In Luke Jesus sends out 70 disciples (some translations have the number of 72, see Expositor’s Greek Testament, Cambridge, Pulpit, etc.). “but the evidence preponderates in favour of the reading “seventy.”” Elicott’s Commentary on Luke 10:1.

Further, the Israelites camped at a place called Elim where there were twelve springs of dual-waters and 70 palm trees” (Numbers 33:9), the total number of grandkids (a.k.a. nations) of Rest listed in Genesis 10 is 70 (although this is 72 in the Septuagint), and in Numbers 29:13-39 we find a total of 70 bulls sacrificed over the course of 7 days during the Feast of Tabernacles.