Holy Scripture
Exodus 28:21
A church father on this verse
“But why was it that [Christ] chose twelve apostles, and not some other number? In truth, I might from this very point conclude of my Christ that he was foretold not only by the words of prophets but by the embodied language of facts. For of this number I find figurative hints up and down the Creator's dispensation in…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
21And let the stones of the names of the children of Israel be twelve according to their names, engravings as of seals: let them be for the twelve tribes each according to the name.
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19And the third row, a ligure, an agate, an amethyst:
20and the fourth row, a chrysolite, and a beryl, and an onyx stone, set round with gold, bound together with gold: let them be according to their row.
— Exodus 28:21 —
22And thou shalt make on the oracle woven fringes, a chainwork of pure gold.