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The Numbers of Genesis, One, Seven, Ten, or Seven Times Ten. 70
The number 70 is hypological. It's a rhetorical effect that evokes the idea of comprehensiveness on a large scale, as opposed to the use of seven for completeness on a smaller scale. There are 14 japhitytes, 30 hamites and 26 shemites. The figure 70, even if not explicit, given, can hardly be fortuitous. A scholar says verse five acknowledges there are more nations connected to yet is more out ther day fath than the 14 i just named.