And I heard the number of them who were sealed: and there were sealed a hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
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Shepherd of Hermas
AD 150
"Now, sir "I continued, "explain to me, with respect to the mountains, why their forms are various and diverse. ""Listen "he said: "these mountains are the twelve tribes, which inhabit the whole world.