Elders Appointed to Aid Moses

¹⁶ Then the Lord said to Moses, “Gather for me ^(A)seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and ^(B)officers over them, and bring them to the tent of meeting, and let them take their stand there with you.

The Covenant Confirmed

24 Then he said to Moses, “Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, ^(A)Nadab, and Abihu, and ^(B)seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship from afar.

⁹ Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and ^(A)seventy of the elders of Israel ^(B)went up,

Justice

¹⁸ “You shall appoint ^(A)judges and officers in all your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

¹⁵ So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and experienced men, ^(A)and set them as heads over you, commanders of thousands, commanders of hundreds, commanders of fifties, commanders of tens, and officers, throughout your tribes.

²⁷ And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two. ^(A)All the persons of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt were seventy.

The Return of the Seventy-Two

^17 (A)The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, “Lord, ^(B)even the demons are subject to us in your name!”

Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-Two

10 After this the Lord appointed ^(A)seventy-two^[a] others and ^(B)sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go.

¹¹ And before them stood ^(A)seventy men of ^(B)the elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah the son of ^(C)Shaphan standing among them. Each had his censer in his hand, and ^(D)the smoke of the cloud of incense went up.

²⁹ Then Moses and Aaron ^(A)went and gathered together all the elders of the people of Israel.