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Elders Of Israel

Hebrew origin

Seventy elders go up Sinai with Moses, Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, see the God of Israel, and eat and drink. They wait with Aaron and Hur while Moses and Joshua go higher.

Meaning
Occupation
Elders
First mention
Exodus 3:16

Scripture references

  • Exodus 3:16

    'Go, gather the elders of Israel together and tell them, "Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, has appeared to me -- the God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob -- and has indeed visited you and seen what is being done to you in Egypt,

  • Exodus 3:18

    They will listen to your words, and you and the elders of Israel are to go to the king of Egypt and say to him, "Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has encountered us. So now please allow us to make a three-days' journey into the desert and sacrifice to Yahweh our God."

  • Exodus 4:29

    Moses and Aaron then went and gathered all the elders of the Israelites together,

  • Exodus 4:30

    and Aaron repeated everything that Yahweh had said to Moses, and in the sight of the people performed the signs.

  • Exodus 12:21

    Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, 'Go and choose a lamb or kid for your families, and kill the Passover victim.

  • Exodus 17:5

    Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Go on ahead of the people, taking some of the elders of Israel with you; in your hand take the staff with which you struck the River, and go.

  • Exodus 17:6

    I shall be waiting for you there on the rock (at Horeb). Strike the rock, and water will come out for the people to drink.' This was what Moses did, with the elders of Israel looking on.

  • Exodus 18:12

    Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, then offered a burnt offering and other sacrifices to God; and Aaron and all the elders of Israel came and ate with Moses' father-in-law in the presence of God.

  • Exodus 19:7

    So Moses went and summoned the people's elders and acquainted them with everything that Yahweh had bidden him,

  • Exodus 24:1

    He then said to Moses, 'Come up to Yahweh, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel and bow down at a distance.