The Jewish apocryphal book, The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, also states that this is the burial place of Jacob's twelve sons.

There are even more elaborate ethical teachings in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, in which each of the twelve sons of Jacob, in his last words to his children and children's children, reviews his life and gives them moral lessons, either warning them against a certain vice he had been guilty of, so that they may avoid divine punishment, or recommending them to cultivate a certain virtue he had practised during life, so that they may win God's favor.

Leah ( Leˀa ; from Akkadian cow ), as described in the Hebrew Bible, is the first of the two concurrent wives of the Hebrew patriarch Jacob and mother of ten of sons whose descendants became the Twelve Tribes of Israel, along with at least one daughter, Dinah.

As in Christianity and Judaism, Islam holds that Jacob had twelve sons, each of which would go on to father the Twelve Tribes of Israel.

Twelve months later this ship was wrecked on the rocks at Nobby Head, Picnic Bay and the Phoenix was built by Hayles ' sons to replace the vessel.

After George Richards ' death, one of his sons, LeGrand, became a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the LDS Church, thus making the Richards family only the third Latter-day Saint family in history with three consecutive generations with members in the Quorum ( the others being the three-generation combination of George A. Smith, John Henry Smith, and George Albert Smith and the three generation combination of Amasa M. Lyman, Francis M. Lyman, and Richard R. Lyman ).

Judah was one of the twelve sons of Jacob and one of the Twelve tribes of Israel ( Genesis ).

* The third section ( chapters 38-68 ) is a list of doctrinal and ethical instructions given by Enoch to his sons: the main moral principle is the love for all the living beings ( similar to the ethics found in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs ), particularly noticeable is the lack of interest for the sin of fornication and not once is the Law of Moses referred to ; Enoch teaches the uselessness of intercessions.

Twelve projects proposed by private groups are at the contract-negotiation stage, Gordon Boyce, director of relations with the voluntary agencies, said in a Washington interview.

Twelve spies are sent out into Canaan and come back to report to Moses.

Twelve oil paintings date from his stay in Upper Norwood and are listed and illustrated in the catalogue raisonné prepared jointly by his fifth child Ludovic-Rodolphe Pissarro and Lionello Venturi and published in 1939.

Twelve gold ( or yellow ) stars are centered in a circle ( the radius of which is a third of the length of the hoist ) upon a blue background.

The arena for the actions that would bring about this deep change are the Twelve Labors imposed on Heracles by Eurystheus.

* John never lists all of the Twelve Disciples and names at least one disciple ( Nathanael ) whose name is not found in the synoptics ; Nathanael appears to parallel the apostle Bartholomew found in the synoptics, as both are paired with Philip in the respective gospels.

The Twelve Articles ( 1525 ) are considered to be the first record of human rights in Europe.

Baldung's most sustained effort is the altarpiece of Freiburg, where the Coronation of the Virgin, and the Twelve Apostles, the Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity and Flight into Egypt, and the Crucifixion, with portraits of donors, are executed with some of that fanciful power that Martin Schongauer bequeathed to the Swabian school.

* 180 – Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians.

To this end, he enacted Twelve Decrees that are remarkable for their liberalism and foresight.

Among his best known works are the series Ten Studies in Female Physiognomy ; A Collection of Reigning Beauties ; Great Love Themes of Classical Poetry ( sometimes called Women in Love containing individual prints such as Revealed Love and Pensive Love ); and Twelve Hours in the Pleasure Quarters.

Twelve people are killed and sixty-three wounded.

Twelve months are named and ordered the same as those of the Gregorian calendar, except that the extra month is inserted between June and July, and called Sol.

Some popular Christmas carols are " We Wish You a Merry Christmas ", " Deck the Halls ", " The Twelve Days of Christmas ", " Frosty the Snowman ", " Jingle Bells ", " Silver Bells ", " Santa Claus Is Coming to Town ", and " O Holy Night ".

Benjamin Minor ( originally titled Book of the Twelve Patriarchs ) and Benjamin Major are Richard of Saint Victor's great works on contemplation.

These are the original Twelve Steps as published by Alcoholics Anonymous:

However, many of these new small communities failed, but some are growing like the Twelve Tribes Communities that started in the United States and have grown to many tribes around the world.

While references are anecdotal, it seems to be a tradition that morphed into early European Christian tradition of the Twelve Days of Christmas.

** Twelve paintings, collectively worth $ 100 to $ 300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts by 2 thieves posing as police officers.

* 449 BC: The Twelve Tables are promulgated to the people of Rome — the first public laws of the Roman Republic.

Har answers: Twelve are the Æsir of the race of gods.

The Matins service ( usually celebrated Thursday night ) is officially entitled, " The Office of the Holy and Redeeming Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ ", and is commonly known as the " Matins of the Twelve Gospels ", because interspersed throughout the service are twelve Gospel readings which recount the entire Passion of Christ from the Last Supper to the sealing of the tomb.

XII. 22 Lying Lips are abomination to the Lord ", pp. 519 – 657 in South, R., Twelve Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions ( Second Edition ), Volume I, Printed by S. D.

* July 17 – Twelve Christian inhabitants of Scillium in Numidia are executed in Carthage ( also in North Africa ) ( known as the Scillitan Martyrs ) – they had refused to swear an oath to the Emperor.

Twelve of these essays are disputed over by some scholars, though the modern consensus is that Madison wrote essays Nos.

Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Antelope, after the Antelope:

Bartholomew is listed among the Twelve Apostles of Christ in the three Synoptic gospels: Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and also appears as one of the witnesses of the Ascension ,; however each time he is named in the company of Philip.

With the aid of a human named Baltar ( an inadvertent aid in the 2003 version ), the Cylons carry out a massive attack on the Twelve Colonies and on the Colonial Fleet of starships that protect them.

Twelve months of 30 days were named for festivals or activities of the pastoral year.

Twelve years before the town of Lenexa was platted in 1869, a young man named James Butler Hickok staked a claim on at what is now the corner of 83rd and Clare Road.

Twelve of the grantees were named Sanborn, therefore the community was named Sanborntown.

The central entertainment and commercial hub is the Twelve Corners, so named because three intersecting roads, Winton Road, Monroe Avenue and Elmwood Avenue, define 12 distinct corners.

Twelve leather-bound papyrus codices buried in a sealed jar were found by a local peasant named Mohammed Ali Samman.

Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Thetis, named after the sea-nymph in Greek mythology:

In certain counties ( Berkshire, Buckinghamshire ) it also was possible to sit the test a year early — a process named the Ten Plus ; recently, the Buckinghamshire test was called the Twelve Plus and taken a year later than usual.

If the President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles is asked to become a counselor in the First Presidency, the President of the Quorum retains that title but is not numbered among the Twelve, and the most senior Apostle who is not in the First Presidency is named Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

Twelve years after Dhaos had been sealed away, a young swordsman named Cress Albane ( Also romanized ' Cless Alvein ') and his best friend, Chester Burklight, live in the town of Toltus.

* Strang's Twelve Apostles are named as " Princes in his Kingdom forever.

As a result, Packer was named Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve.

In 1985, Hunter was named Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve, in recognition of the infirmity of Marion G. Romney, who had succeeded as President of the Twelve by seniority ; Hunter became president of the Quorum of the Twelve on Romney's death in 1988.

* The Twelve Wallachian mercenaries in the 2009 novel Twelve by Jasper Kent are named after the original Oprichniki, but are not directly connected to them.

Smith was named to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1910, when his father was president of the church.