1)

What did Moshe tell the people?

1.

Rashi: He repeated to them what Hashem had said to him - "ha'Yad Hashem Tiktzar"? And it was following the people's negative response 1 that he gathered the seventy elders.

2.

Oznayim la'Torah: He told them to prepare for the next day 2 - when their request would be fufilled.

1

Refer to 1:23:2:1.

2

As Hashem had instructed him in Pasuk 16.

2)

Why did Moshe change the order - first telling them what Hashem had told him nd then gathering the seventy elders?

1.

Oznayim la'Torah: To give them more time to do Teshuvah. 1

1

See Oznayim la'Torah.

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