And they came to Elim, where there were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.
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Bede
AD 735
When the people of God went out from Egypt, their sixth resting place, in which “there were twelve fountains of water and seventy palm trees,” was called Elim (that is, “of rams”), so that both by its name and by its appearance it might contain the figure of the apostles and the apostolic men.