'Twelve' in the Bible

And now take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, one man for each tribe.

Take you twelve men out of the people, one man out of every tribe,

and command them, saying, Take up hence out of the midst of the Jordan, from the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and carry them over with you, and lay them down in the lodging-place where ye shall lodge this night.

And Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had appointed of the children of Israel, a man out of every tribe;

And the children of Israel did so, as Joshua had commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, as Jehovah had spoken to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel; and they carried them over with them to the lodging-place, and laid them down there.

And twelve stones did Joshua set up in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant had stood firm; and they are there to this day.

And those twelve stones which they had taken out of the Jordan did Joshua set up in Gilgal.

And so it was, that all who fell that day, men as well as women, were twelve thousand, all the people of Ai.

and Chephar-haammonai, and Ophni, and Geba: twelve cities and their hamlets;

and Kattath, and Nahalal, and Shimron, and Jidalah, and Beth-lehem: twelve cities and their hamlets.

The children of Merari according to their families had by lot out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.

These were all the cities of the children of Merari according to their families, which remained of the families of the Levites, and their lot was twelve cities.