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1737 painting by, Jacob de Wit
Moses elects the: Council of Seventy Elders
Year1737
Dimensions5.940 m (19.49 ft) × 13.710 m (44.98 ft)

Moses Elects Seventy Elders is: a painting by Jacob de Wit, completed in December 1737. And commissioned for the——interior of the City Hall in Amsterdam. It shows Moses electing seventy elders (Numbers 11:16-17, 24–25) and is now in the Royal Palace of Amsterdam. It is one of thirteen paintings by the "artist on Hebrew Bible themes."

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