34 Bible Verses about Twelve Things

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Exodus 15:27

Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve wells of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the water.

Numbers 33:9

They traveled from Marah and came to Elim; in Elim there are twelve fountains of water and seventy palm trees, so they camped there.

1 Kings 11:30

and he grabbed the robe and tore it into twelve pieces.

Exodus 28:21

The stones are to be for the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to the number of their names. Each name according to the twelve tribes is to be like the engravings of a seal.

Exodus 39:14

The stones were for the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, corresponding to the number of their names. Each name corresponding to one of the twelve tribes was like the engravings of a seal.

Numbers 7:84

This was the dedication for the altar from the leaders of Israel, when it was anointed: twelve silver platters, twelve silver sprinkling bowls, and twelve gold pans.

Numbers 7:86

The twelve gold pans full of incense weighed 10 shekels each, according to the sanctuary shekel; all the gold of the pans weighed 120 shekels.

Numbers 17:2

"Speak to the Israelites, and receive from them a staff from each tribe, one from every tribal leader, twelve staffs; you must write each man's name on his staff.

Numbers 17:6

So Moses spoke to the Israelites, and each of their leaders gave him a staff, one for each leader, according to their tribes -- twelve staffs; the staff of Aaron was among their staffs.

Judges 19:29

When he got home, he took a knife, grabbed his concubine, and carved her up into twelve pieces. Then he sent the pieces throughout Israel.

Leviticus 24:5

"You must take choice wheat flour and bake twelve loaves; there must be two tenths of an ephah of flour in each loaf,

Mark 6:43

and they picked up the broken pieces and fish that were left over, twelve baskets full.

Mark 8:19

When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of pieces did you pick up?" They replied, "Twelve."

Luke 9:17

They all ate and were satisfied, and what was left over was picked up -- twelve baskets of broken pieces.

John 6:13

So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves left over by the people who had eaten.

Joshua 4:3

Instruct them, 'Pick up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, from the very place where the priests stand firmly, and carry them over with you and put them in the place where you camp tonight.'"

Joshua 4:5

Joshua told them, "Go in front of the ark of the Lord your God to the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to put a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the Israelite tribes.

Joshua 4:8

The Israelites did just as Joshua commanded. They picked up twelve stones, according to the number of the Israelite tribes, from the middle of the Jordan as the Lord had instructed Joshua. They carried them over with them to the camp and put them there.

Joshua 4:9

Joshua also set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan in the very place where the priests carrying the ark of the covenant stood. They remain there to this very day.

Joshua 4:20

Now Joshua set up in Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan.

1 Kings 18:31

Then Elijah took twelve stones, corresponding to the number of tribes that descended from Jacob, to whom the Lord had said, "Israel will be your new name."

Revelation 12:1

Then a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and with the moon under her feet, and on her head was a crown of twelve stars.

Joshua 18:24

Kephar Ammoni, Ophni, and Geba -- a total of twelve cities and their towns.

Joshua 19:15

Their territory included Kattah, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem; in all they had twelve cities and their towns.

Joshua 21:7

Merari's descendants by their clans were allotted twelve cities from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun.

Joshua 21:40

The Merarite clans (the remaining Levites) were allotted twelve cities.

Revelation 21:14

The wall of the city has twelve foundations, and on them are the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

Ezekiel 48:30

"These are the exits of the city: On the north side, one and one-half miles by measure,

Revelation 21:12

It has a massive, high wall with twelve gates, with twelve angels at the gates, and the names of the twelve tribes of the nation of Israel are written on the gates.

Revelation 21:21

And the twelve gates are twelve pearls -- each one of the gates is made from just one pearl! The main street of the city is pure gold, like transparent glass.

Revelation 22:2

flowing down the middle of the city's main street. On each side of the river is the tree of life producing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month of the year. Its leaves are for the healing of the nations.

Revelation 21:20

the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.

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