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How does this Pasuk follow the sequence of events?
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Seforno: Having fulfilled the command to convey to Yisrael what Hashem had told him,
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See Yisro, Sh'mos 20:22 (Seforno).
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What is the significance of the seventy elders?
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R. Bachye: They were the foremen who were beaten for refusing to force the slaves to produce more bricks than they were able to
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See R. Chavel's footnotes.
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Why does the Torah not list the naMeis of the seventy elders?
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Rosh Hashanah, 25a: To teach us that every group of three who is appointed Beis-Din in Yisrael is comparable to the Beis-Din of Moshe.
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Whose identities are unknown and who, for all we know, were not greater than the current Beis-Din.
