“We just left Egypt, and we don’t need a repeat of a national leader who exercises ultimate political power.”
Wilderness of Paran, June 14 – A group of Hebrews dissatisfied with their God-appointed leader expressed their intent today to override his authority by adding judges to the nation’s highest court who side with them, to achieve the majority necessary to impose their faction’s policies and sensibilities, tribal sources reported today.
Ringleaders of a Hebrew movement opposed to what they term the “dictatorial” tendencies of Moses, the prophetic man of God who, they argue, has seized all power for himself. They threatened to send many more tribal elders to the Court of Seventy, weighing the body in favor of factions opposed to Moses.
“We need more democratic responsiveness on the part of this unelected leadership,” insisted movement activists at a demonstration today. “If the unilateral decisions continue, we will have no choice but to force a change to the way this government is structured. We just left Egypt, and we don’t need a repeat of a national leader who exercises ultimate political power regardless of his decisions’ ramifications on millions of people.”
“Hmm, Egypt…” added another. “We used to have some good fish in Egypt, free of charge. Leeks, too. Garlic. Onions. Melons. Cucumbers. I could go for some good meat right about now.”
Several activists suggested beginning with the addition of Eldad and Meidad, two elders who achieved prophecy despite not joining the other seventy on the newly-formed council around Moses. The official explanation for the pair’s remaining in the camp while the others joined Moses highlights Eldad’s and Meidad’s humility: God had specified the number seventy, but equal representation from all twelve tribes required no fewer than six from each, totaling seventy-two. Eldad and Meidad, therefore, elected not to challenge anyone else for those positions, and relinquished the status despite their eminent worthiness – as indicated by the spirit of God resting upon them along with their appointed counterparts.
Opposition figures, however, offered a contrasting explanation, by which Eldad and Meidad refrained from joining their colleagues not out of modesty or generosity, but as a protest against the high-handed leadership of Moses and his nepotistic favoritism of his brother Aaron as high priest, and the rest of his Levite tribe as an elite caste that the rest of the people must support through tithes. One opposition figure, a Levite himself, claims to have assembled a roster of two-hundred-fifty potential additions to the Court of Elders – or perhaps replacements, if it becomes necessary, he warned.
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