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  2. Moses Elects Seventy Elders - Wikipedia

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    Moses Elects Seventy Elders is a painting by Jacob de Wit, completed in December 1737 and commissioned for the interior of the City Hall in Amsterdam. It shows Moses electing seventy elders (Numbers 11:16-17, 24–25) and is now in the Royal Palace of Amsterdam. It is one of thirteen paintings by the artist on Hebrew Bible themes.

  3. Sanhedrin - Wikipedia

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    When Moses declared that the task of leading the people was too difficult for him, God had him appoint 70 elders (zekenim) to share the burden of leadership with him. [4] According to the Mishnah, these 70 elders plus Moses himself are the source for the 71 judges of the "Great Sanhedrin". [5]

  4. Theocratic Government - Wikipedia

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    In the Theocratic Government structure used by Kent and previously by Tomlinson, there was a recognition that the Bible states that Moses had gathered seventy elders of the children of Israel to be anointed with the Holy Spirit, and when this happened, there were another two who also were anointed within the camp (Numbers 11:24-26), and in ...

  5. Devarim (parashah) - Wikipedia

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    The parashah recounts how Moses appointed ... fifties, and tens, in Numbers 11:16, the solution is 70 elders. In Deuteronomy 1:10, Moses reported that God had ...

  6. Nadab and Abihu - Wikipedia

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    During the Exodus journey, after the Israelites' affirmation of their covenant with God, [4] Abihu and Nadab accompanied Moses, Aaron, and 70 elders up Mount Sinai. There they saw God with great clarity, walking on a pavement of sapphire stone, and shared a meal in God's presence, without being harmed as a result.

  7. Book of Numbers - Wikipedia

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    The people murmur against God and are punished by fire; Moses complains of their stubbornness and God orders him to choose seventy elders to assist him in the government of the people. Miriam and Aaron insult Moses at Hazeroth, which angers God; Miriam is punished with leprosy and is shut out of camp for seven days, at the end of which the ...

  8. Laying on of hands - Wikipedia

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    Moses ordained Joshua through semikhah—i.e. by the laying on of hands: Num 27:15–23, Deut 34:9. The Bible adds that Joshua was thereby "filled with the spirit of wisdom". Moses also ordained the 70 elders (Num 11:16–25). The elders later ordained their successors in this way. Their successors in turn ordained others.

  9. Behaalotecha - Wikipedia

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    [35] Moses gathered the 70 elders, and God came down in a cloud, spoke to Moses, and drew on the spirit that was on Moses and put it on the elders. [36] When the spirit rested on them, they spoke in ecstasy, but did not continue. [37] Eldad and Medad had remained in camp, yet the spirit rested on them, and they spoke in ecstasy in the camp. [38]