The Greek Old Testament is called the Septuagint which means "seventy." The story goes that 70 scholars were hired to translate the scriptures into Greek independently of each other and when their finished translations were compared, they matched up perfectly. And if you believe that, I some prime real estate at the bottom of Lake Superior you may be interested in. The Seventy refers to the quinaries of the zodiac.
They are referred to again in Luke 10:1 which reads: "After this the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to come." But remember that other cultures had 72 quinaries instead of 70. The above quoted verse was from the RSV bible whereas the NIV bible reads: "After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go."
Although some may call this an error in the translations, there is no error once we understand that the various religious scriptures are astrological allegories rather than histories. One culture had 70 quinaries and another had 72. Neither is wrong.
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