CENSUS

Passages on this topic · 57

• Exodus 3:14

  God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,” and he said, “You shall tell the children of Israel this: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

• Exodus 3:15

  God said moreover to Moses, “You shall tell the children of Israel this, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations.

• Exodus 3:16

  Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt;

• Exodus 3:17

  and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’

• Exodus 3:18

  They will listen to your voice, and you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall tell him, ‘Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh, our God.’

• Exodus 3:19

  I know that the king of Egypt won’t give you permission to go, no, not by a mighty hand.

• Exodus 3:20

  I will reach out my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will do among them, and after that he will let you go.

• Exodus 3:21

  I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and it will happen that when you go, you shall not go empty-handed.

• Exodus 3:22

  But every woman shall ask of her neighbor, and of her who visits her house, jewels of silver, jewels of gold, and clothing; and you shall put them on your sons, and on your daughters. You shall plunder the Egyptians.”

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• Exodus 30:12

  “When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are counted among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to Yahweh, when you count them; that there be no plague among them when you count them.

• Exodus 30:13

  They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are counted, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs ); half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh.

• Exodus 30:14

  Everyone who passes over to those who are counted, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to Yahweh.

• Exodus 30:15

  The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.

• Exodus 30:16

  You shall take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the Tent of Meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.”

• Exodus 38:26

  a beka a head, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those who were counted, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty men.

• 2 Samuel 24:1

  Again Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, “Go, count Israel and Judah.”

• 2 Samuel 24:2

  The king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him, “Now go back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and count the people, that I may know the sum of the people.”

• 2 Samuel 24:3

  Joab said to the king, “Now may Yahweh your God add to the people, however many they may be, one hundred times; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king delight in this thing?”

• 2 Samuel 24:4

  Notwithstanding, the king’s word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the army. Joab and the captains of the army went out from the presence of the king to count the people of Israel.

• 2 Samuel 24:5

  They passed over the Jordan, and encamped in Aroer, on the right side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad, and to Jazer;

• 2 Samuel 24:6

  then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim Hodshi; and they came to Dan Jaan, and around to Sidon,

• 2 Samuel 24:7

  and came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites; and they went out to the south of Judah, at Beersheba.

• 2 Samuel 24:8

  So when they had gone back and forth through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

• 2 Samuel 24:9

  Joab gave up the sum of the counting of the people to the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.

• 1 Chronicles 21:1

  Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take a census of Israel.

• 1 Chronicles 21:2

  David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, “Go, count Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know how many there are.”

• 1 Chronicles 21:3

  Joab said, “May Yahweh make his people a hundred times as many as they are. But, my lord the king, aren’t they all my lord’s servants? Why does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel?”

• 1 Chronicles 21:4

  Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, then came to Jerusalem.

• 1 Chronicles 21:5

  Joab gave up the sum of the census of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew a sword; and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew a sword.

• 1 Chronicles 21:6

  But he didn’t count Levi and Benjamin among them; for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.

• 1 Chronicles 21:7

  God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel.

• 1 Chronicles 21:8

  David said to God, “I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing. But now put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”

• 1 Chronicles 27:24

  Joab the son of Zeruiah began to take a census, but didn’t finish; and wrath came on Israel for this. The number wasn’t put into the account in the chronicles of king David.

• Luke 2:1

  Now in those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled.

• Luke 2:2

  This was the first enrollment made when Quirinius was governor of Syria.

• Luke 2:3

  All went to enroll themselves, everyone to his own city.