The bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the part of the field that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for one hundred pieces of money. So it became the inheritance of the tribe of Joseph.

These were their names: Ben-Hur was in charge of the hill country of Ephraim.

In the eighteenth year of the reign of King Jeroboam, Abijah became king over Judah.

He counts the number of the stars; he names all of them.

This is the record of the family line of Adam. When God created humankind, he made them in the likeness of God.

These were the ones chosen from the community, leaders of their ancestral tribes. They were the heads of the thousands of Israel.

The standard of the camp of Reuben set out according to their companies; over his company was Elizur son of Shedeur.

So Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Each of you must execute those of his men who were joined to Baal-peor.”

He stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the entire assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.

Or is God the God of the Jews only? Is he not the God of the Gentiles too? Yes, of the Gentiles too!

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

And they are responsible for all the furnishings of the tent of meeting, and for the needs of the Israelites, as they serve in the tabernacle.

They possessed his land and that of King Og of Bashan – both of whom were Amorite kings in the Transjordan, to the east.

Within the territory of the half-tribe of Manasseh, the rest of Kohath’s descendants received Aner and its pasturelands and Bileam and its pasturelands.

In the first year of Darius son of Ahasuerus, who was of Median descent and who had been appointed king over the Babylonian empire –

From the tribe of Judah, twelve thousand were sealed, from the tribe of Reuben, twelve thousand, from the tribe of Gad, twelve thousand,

from the tribe of Asher, twelve thousand, from the tribe of Naphtali, twelve thousand, from the tribe of Manasseh, twelve thousand,

from the tribe of Simeon, twelve thousand, from the tribe of Levi, twelve thousand, from the tribe of Issachar, twelve thousand,

from the tribe of Zebulun, twelve thousand, from the tribe of Joseph, twelve thousand, from the tribe of Benjamin, twelve thousand were sealed.

For the dedication of this temple of God they offered one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and twelve male goats for the sin of all Israel, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.