25) According to the words of the Zohar and Mikdash Melech, the reason the seventy-two elders changed the wording for King Ptolemy when they translated the Torah for him is as we learn in Chapter 1 of Megillah. There is a story about King Ptolemy who gathered seventy-two elders and seated them in seventy-two separate chambers, without revealing to them the reason for their gathering. He then visited each one of them individually and said to them, "Write for me the Torah of your master Moses."
And the Holy One, blessed be He, placed a plan in the heart of each and every one of them, and their minds agreed upon one understanding. They wrote for him, "God created in the beginning the heavens and the earth." And Rashi explained that they did not write the name "Yahweh" in the beginning, as there are two authorities, one creating the other. Likewise, they wrote, "Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness."
And the esteemed Rabbi from the school of the Rosh (Rabbi Asher) also explained, following Rashi's interpretation, that they did not say there are two authorities, and this way, it does not contradict what was said in Sanhedrin: "Whenever the heretics denied [God], their response was by their side." "Let us make man," "and God created," "come, let us go down," "and the Lord descended," and they were written from the beginning in plural form, as Rabbi Yochanan said: The Holy One, blessed be He, does not do anything until He consults with the heavenly assembly and so on.
And its meaning is as Rashi explained in the Torah, that it is an attribute of humility, that the greater should consult with the lesser. This is in accordance with Midrash Bereishit Rabbah and so on.