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Ibn Ezra on Exodus 4:29/אבן עזרא על שמות ד׳:כ״ט
אוילך. הזקנים הם היועצים בכל דור ודור כי לא יוכלו לדבר עם שש מאות אלף איש, רק הזקנים ידברו להם:
1AND MOSES AND AARON WENT. The elders are the counselors in each generation,160, a board of counselors. I.E. apparently assumes that each generation going back to Moses had a similar arrangement with the exception that in previous times they were referred to as zekenim (elders) rather than yo’atzim (counselors). as Moses and Aaron could not possibly speak to six hundred thousand men. It was rather the elders who spoke to them.