The stones were for the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, corresponding to the number of ¹  their names. Each name corresponding to one of the twelve tribes was like the engravings of a seal.

“You are to make curtains of goats’ hair ¹  for a tent over the tabernacle; ²  you are to make ³  eleven curtains.

The hangings on one side ¹  of the gate are to be ²  twenty-two and a half feet long, with their three posts and their three bases.

On the second side ¹  there are to be ²  hangings twenty-two and a half feet long, with their three posts and their three bases.

He made curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle; he made eleven curtains. ¹ 

with hangings on one side ¹  of the gate that were twenty-two and a half feet long, with their three posts and their three bases,

and Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. Early in the morning he built ¹  an altar at the foot ²  of the mountain and arranged ³  twelve standing stones ⁴  – according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

The stones are to be for the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to the number of ¹  their names. Each name according to the twelve tribes is to be like ²  the engravings of a seal.

You must care for it ¹  until the fourteenth day of this month, and then the whole community ²  of Israel will kill it around sundown. ³ 

In the first month, ¹  from the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you will eat bread made without yeast until the twenty-first day of the month in the evening.

Then they came to Elim, ¹  where there were twelve wells of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the water.

The length of each ¹  curtain is to be forty-five feet, and the width of each curtain is to be six feet – the same size for the eleven curtains.

So there are to be eight frames and their silver bases, sixteen bases, two bases under the first frame, and two bases under the next frame.

The length of one curtain was forty-five feet, and the width of one curtain was six feet – one size for all eleven curtains.

So there were eight frames and their silver bases, sixteen bases, two bases under each frame.

and for the second side of the gate of the courtyard, just like the other, ¹  the hangings were twenty-two and a half feet long, with their three posts and their three bases.

¹ When ²  they journeyed from Elim, the entire company ³  of Israelites came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their exodus ⁴  from the land of Egypt.