They imagined that it had always been composed of scholars who met to debate points of Jewish law and held that it dated from the time Moses assembled 70 older men to help him lead Israel.
وقد اعتقد هؤلاء الكتبة ان تاريخه يعود الى حين جمع موسى ٧٠ رجلا من شيوخ اسرائيل لمساعدته في قيادة الشعب .‏