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   "And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab,   
   and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off   
   . . . Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of   
   the elders of Israel:"   
   Exodus 24:1, 9, KJV   
      
   "And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders   
   of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and   
   officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the   
   congregation, that they may stand there with thee . . . And Moses went   
   out, and told the people the words of the LORD, and gathered the   
   seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the   
   tabernacle. And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and   
   took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy   
   elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them,   
   they prophesied, and did not cease."   
   Numbers 11:16, 24-25, KJV   
      
   "And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that   
   they do here. So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping   
   things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of   
   Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about. And there stood before   
   them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the   
   midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his   
   censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up. Then said he   
   unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of   
   Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for   
   they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth."   
   Ezekiel 8:9-12, KJV   
      
   In the New Testament, we find the counterpart to these Seventy Elders   
   in such verses as the following; however, they were definitely not the   
   same God-fearing people who comprised the Sanhedrin under Moses'   
   leadership. If they had been, they wouldn't have killed Jesus Christ:   
      
   "But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a   
   cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to   
   his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever   
   shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire."   
   Matthew 5:22, KJV   
      
   "Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false   
   witness against Jesus, to put him to death;"   
   Matthew 26:59, KJV   
      
   "And straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation   
   with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and   
   carried him away, and delivered him to Pilate."   
   Mark 15:1, KJV   
      
   "And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the   
   morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were with   
   him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the   
   children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought."   
   Acts 5:21, KJV   
      
   "On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty wherefore he   
   was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from his bands, and commanded   
   the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul   
   down, and set him before them."   
   Acts 22:30, KJV   
      
   Please note that the word "council" is derived from the Greek form of   
   the word "Sanhedrin", which is transliterated from Greek as   
   "sunedrion".   
      
      
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