'Twelve' in the Bible

and now, take for you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, one man -- one man for a tribe;

Take for you out of the people twelve men, one man -- one man out of a tribe;

and command ye them, saying, Take up for you from this place, from the midst of the Jordan, from the established standing-place of the feet of the priests, twelve stones, and ye have removed them over with you, and placed them in the lodging-place in which ye lodge to-night.'

And Joshua calleth unto the twelve men whom he prepared out of the sons of Israel, one man -- one man out of a tribe;

And the sons of Israel do so as Joshua commanded, and take up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, as Jehovah hath spoken unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel, and remove them over with them unto the lodging-place, and place them there,

even the twelve stones hath Joshua raised up out of the midst of the Jordan, the place of the standing of the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the covenant, and they are there unto this day.

and these twelve stones, which they have taken out of the Jordan, hath Joshua raised up in Gilgal.

and all who fall during the day, of men and of women, are twelve thousand -- all men of Ai.

and Chephar-Haammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities and their villages.

and Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Beth-Lehem; twelve cities and their villages.

For the sons of Merari, for their families, are, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.

All the cities for the sons of Merari, for their families, who are left of the families of the Levites -- their lot is twelve cities.