"threescore" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Chronicles 9:13:",
          "text": "And their brethren, heads of the house of their fathers, a thousand, and seuen hundred and threescore, very able men for the worke of the seruice of the house of God.",
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          "ref": "1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, XXI",
          "text": "Words cannot picture her; but all men know\nThat solemn sketch the pure sad artist wrought\nThree centuries and threescore years ago"
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          "ref": "2012 January 29, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 2012-11-14, page 23:",
          "text": "We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.",
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        "(archaic) Sixty (60)."
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