John 5:43 I have come as my Father's representative, and you do not receive me. If some one else comes representing only himself, him you will receive. (WEY)
Exodus 24:4 Moses wrote all the words of Yahweh, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel. (See NIV)
Numbers 1:44 These are those who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: they were each one for his fathers' house. (See RSV NIV)