It was taught in a Baraita that King Ptolemy brought together 72 elders and placed them in 72 separate rooms, without telling them why he had brought them together, and asked each of them to translate the Torah. God then prompted each of them to conceive the same idea and write a number of cases in which the translation did not follow the Masoretic Text, including, for "And he sent the "elect" of the children of Israel" — writing "elect" instead of "young men"; and for "And against the "elect" of the children of Israel he put not forth his hand" — writing "elect" instead of "nobles."