TSK · Exodus 24:4

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.

Then this stone that I have set up as a sacred stone will be the house of God, and I will surely give you back a tenth of everything you give me.”

Moses built an altar, and he called it“The LORD is my Banner,”

If you make me an altar of stone, you must not build it of stones shaped with tools, for if you use your tool on it you have defiled it.

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.”

“Speak to the Israelites, and receive from them a staff from each tribe, one from every tribal leader, twelve staffs; you must write each man’s name on his staff.

“Select for yourselves twelve men from the people, one per tribe.

The Israelites did just as Joshua commanded. They picked up twelve stones, according to the number of the Israelite tribes, from the middle of the Jordan as the LORD had instructed Joshua. They carried them over with them to the camp and put them there.

Joshua wrote these words in the Law Scroll of God. He then took a large stone and set it up there under the oak tree near the LORD’s shrine.

Then Elijah took twelve stones, corresponding to the number of tribes that descended from Jacob, to whom the LORD’s message had come,“Israel will be your name.”

On the sealed documents were the following names: Nehemiah the governor, son of Hacaliah, along with Zedekiah,

and when James, Cephas, and John, who had a reputation as pillars, recognized the grace that had been given to me, they gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we would go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.