Is there any significance in the number 70 pertaining to the number of elders being chosen to help Moses?

Numbers 11:16 - 30

NKJV - ¹⁶ So the LORD said to Moses: "Gather to Me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; bring them to the tabernacle of meeting, that they may stand there with you. ¹⁷ Then I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit that is upon you and will put the same upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you may not bear it yourself alone.

Clarify • Share • Report • Asked January 02 2014 • Elisabeth Woltman