Joshua 4:2

2 aTake twelve men from the people, from each tribe a man,

Mark 3:14-19

14 bAnd he appointed twelve (whom he also named apostles) so that they might be with him and he might send them out to preach 15 cand have authority to cast out demons. 16He appointed the twelve: dSimon (to whom ehe gave the name Peter); 17 fJames the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James (to whom he gave the name Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder); 18Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and gMatthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Zealot,
Greek kananaios, meaning zealot
19and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.

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