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Exodus 18:21
Also you shall select for yourself able men out of all the people, God fearing [men], righteous men, hating pride, and you shall set over the people captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens.
Numbers 11:16
And the Lord said to Moses, Gather Me seventy men from the elders of Israel, whom you yourself know that they are the elders of the people, and their scribes; and you shall bring them to the tabernacle of witness, and they shall stand there with you.
Numbers 11:17
And I will go down, and speak there with you; and I will take of the spirit that is upon you, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear together with you the burden of the people, and you shall not bear them alone.
Acts 1:21-23
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"Therefore, of these men who have accompanied us in every time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
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beginning from the baptism of John until the day in which He was taken up from us, one of these must become a witness with us of His resurrection."
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And they nominated two: Joseph who is called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.
Acts 6:2-6
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Then the twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, "It is not pleasing to us that we should forsake the word of God to serve tables.
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Therefore, brothers, select seven men from among you, of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint for this need.
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But we will faithfully engage in prayer and in the ministry of the word."
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And the word was pleasing before all the congregation, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas, a proselyte from Antioch,
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whom they set before the apostles; and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.