If ten is the number which marks the perfection of Divine order , then eleven is an addition to it, subversive of and undoing that order. If twelve is the number which marks the perfection of Divine government , then eleven falls short of it. There is not much concerning it in the Word of God, but what there is is significant, especially as a factor . One more day would have carried them to the complete administration of all those wonderful laws which God had given them. And the threefold repetition of it is to impress us with the fact that Tyre and Egypt should be broken up, as Jerusalem had been.
Twelve is a perfect number, signifying perfection of government , or of governmental perfection .
It is found as a multiple in all that has to do with rule . While seven is composed of 3 added to 4, twelve is 3 multiplied by 4, and hence denotes that which can scarcely be explained in words, but which the spiritual perception can at once appreciate, viz., organization , the products denoting production and multiplication and increase of all that is contained in the two numbers separately. The 4 is generally prominently seen in the twelve . There are about 18 enumerations altogether, but in each list one or other is omitted. Generally it is Levi, but not always.