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GLOSSARY AND NOTES
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P. 574. "In a hundred and twenty years."-The age attained by Moses and Aaron; a good old age. The expression is used when planning for a future to come after the death of the person spoken to, to imply that there is no desire to see his days curtailed for the sake of the plan.