'Twelve' in the Bible

Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.

"Take twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,

and command them, saying, 'Take from out of the middle of the Jordan, out of 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 you will lodge tonight.'"

Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man.

The children of Israel did as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the middle of the Jordan, as Yahweh spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel; and they carried them over with them to the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.

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

Joshua set up those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, in Gilgal.

All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.

Chephar Ammoni, Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities with their villages.

Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.

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

All these were the cities of the children of Merari according to their families, even the rest of the families of the Levites. Their lot was twelve cities.