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( 24 ) were admitted, to whom Moſes repeated what he had juſt before told to Aaron : theſe being ſeated the one on the right hand the other on the left hand of Moſes ; the ſeventy elders of Iſrael, who compoſed the Sanhedrim, came in, and Moſes again declared the ſame laws to them, with the interpretations of them, as he had done before to Aaron and his ſons. Laſtly, all who pleaſed, of the common people, were invited to enter ; and Moſes inſtructed them likewiſe in the ſame manner as the reſt. So that Aaron heard four times what Moſes had been taught by God upon Mount Sinai, Eleazer and Ithamar three times, the ſeventy elders twice, and the people once. Moſes afterwards reduced the laws he had received into writing, but not the explanation of them ; theſe he thought it ſufficient to truſt to the memories of the above mentioned perſons, who being perfectly inſtructed in them, delivered them to their children, and theſe again to theirs, from age to age.

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