Exodus 24:4

New American Bible - revised edition

Moses then wrote down all the words of the Lord and, rising early in the morning, he built at the foot of the mountain an altar and twelve sacred stones for the twelve tribes of Israel.

Cross References

Genesis 12:7

The Lord appeared to Abram and said: To your descendants I will give this land. So Abram built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him.

Genesis 28:18

Early the next morning Jacob took the stone that he had put under his head, set it up as a sacred pillar, and poured oil on top of it.

Genesis 28:22

This stone that I have set up as a sacred pillar will be the house of God. Of everything you give me, I will return a tenth part to you without fail.”

Genesis 31:45

Then Jacob took a stone and set it up as a sacred pillar.

1 Kings 11:30

Ahijah took off his new cloak, tore it into twelve pieces,

1 Kings 18:31

He took twelve stones, for the number of tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the Lord had said: Israel shall be your name.

Ezra 6:17

For the dedication of this house of God, they offered one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, and four hundred lambs, together with twelve he-goats as a sin offering for all Israel, in keeping with the number of the tribes of Israel.

Nehemiah 10:1

In view of all this, we are entering into a firm pact, which we are putting into writing. On the sealed document appear the names of our princes, our Levites, and our priests.

Exodus 17:14

Then the Lord said to Moses: Write this down in a book as something to be remembered, and recite it to Joshua: I will completely blot out the memory of Amalek from under the heavens.

Exodus 17:15

Moses built an altar there, which he named Yahweh-nissi;

Exodus 21:1

These are the ordinances you shall lay before them.

Exodus 24:7

Taking the book of the covenant, he read it aloud to the people, who answered, “All that the Lord has said, we will hear and do.”

Exodus 28:21

twelve of them to match the names of the sons of Israel, each stone engraved like a seal with the name of one of the twelve tribes.

Exodus 34:27

Then the Lord said to Moses: Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.

Isaiah 19:19

On that day there shall be an altar to the Lord at the center of Egypt, and a sacred pillar to the Lord near its boundary.

Leviticus 24:5

You shall take bran flour and bake it into twelve cakes, using two tenths of an ephah of flour for each cake.

Numbers 17:2

Tell Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, to remove the censers from the embers; and scatter the fire some distance away, for they have become holy—

Luke 22:30

that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom; and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Peter’s Denial Foretold.

Galatians 2:9

and when they recognized the grace bestowed upon me, James and Cephas and John, who were reputed to be pillars, gave me and Barnabas their right hands in partnership, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.

Deuteronomy 31:9

When Moses had written down this law, he gave it to the levitical priests who carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the elders of Israel.

Joshua 4:20

At Gilgal Joshua set up the twelve stones that had been taken from the Jordan,

Joshua 4:5

Joshua said to them: “Go to the Jordan riverbed in front of the ark of the Lord, your God; lift to your shoulders one stone apiece, so that they will equal in number the tribes of the Israelites.

Revelation 21:14

The wall of the city had twelve courses of stones as its foundation, on which were inscribed the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.