Exodus 24:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

And Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. He rose early in the morning, built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and set up twelve pillars, corresponding to the twelve tribes of Israel.

Cross References

Genesis 12:7

Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

Genesis 28:18

So Jacob rose early in the morning, and he took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up for a pillar and poured oil on the top of it.

Genesis 28:22

and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God’s house, and of all that you give me I will surely give one-tenth to you.”

Genesis 31:45

So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.

1 Kings 11:30

when Ahijah laid hold of the new garment he was wearing and tore it into twelve pieces.

1 Kings 18:31

Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord came, saying, “Israel shall be your name”;

Ezra 6:17

They offered at the dedication of this house of God one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and as a sin offering for all Israel, twelve male goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.

Nehemiah 10:1

Upon the sealed document are the names of Nehemiah the governor, son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah;

Exodus 17:14

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this as a remembrance in a book and recite it in the hearing of Joshua: I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”

Exodus 17:15

And Moses built an altar and called it, The Lord is my banner.

Exodus 21:1

“These are the ordinances that you shall set before them:

Exodus 24:7

Then he took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.”

Exodus 28:21

There shall be twelve stones with names corresponding to the names of the sons of Israel; they shall be like signets, each engraved with its name, for the twelve tribes.

Exodus 34:27

The Lord said to Moses, “Write 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 will be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt and a pillar to the Lord at its border.

Leviticus 24:5

“You shall take choice flour and bake twelve loaves of it; two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each loaf.

Numbers 17:2

“Speak to the Israelites, and get twelve staffs from them, one for each ancestral house, from all the leaders of their ancestral houses. Write each man’s name on his staff,

Luke 22:30

so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Galatians 2:9

and when James and Cephas and John, who were acknowledged pillars, recognized the grace that had been given to me, they gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we should go to the gentiles and they to the circumcised.

Deuteronomy 31:9

Then Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the elders of Israel.

Joshua 4:20

Those twelve stones that they had taken out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal,

Joshua 4:5

Joshua said to them, “Pass on before the ark of the Lord your God into the middle of the Jordan, and each of you take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites,

Revelation 21:14

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