In the Christian Bible Jesus sends Seventy-Two:

Luke 10:1-3

 1After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go. 

2 He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field. 

3 Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. 

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