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Bible Verses About Census

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And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.

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And my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written therein,

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And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beerโ€“sheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.

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When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the Lord, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them.

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To many thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to few thou shalt give the less inheritance: to every one shall his inheritance be given according to those that were numbered of him.

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And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time, and numbered all Israel.

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And Moses numbered them according to the word of the Lord, as he was commanded.

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According to the commandment of the Lord they were numbered by the hand of Moses, every one according to his service, and according to his burden: thus were they numbered of him, as the Lord commanded Moses.

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And Moses numbered, as the Lord commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.

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For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beerโ€“sheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people.

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Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

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Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.

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Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as the Lord commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt.

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And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Cesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.

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Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:

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As the Lord commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.

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And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.

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All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the chief of Israel numbered, after their families, and after the house of their fathers,

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But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.

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And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.

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According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to every one according to their number.

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A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.

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All that were numbered of the Levites, which Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the Lord, throughout their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty and two thousand.

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And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

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Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.

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And again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.

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And those that were numbered of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred and fifty.

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And the Lord said unto Moses, Number all the firstborn of the males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.

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And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.

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Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, throughout the houses of their fathers, by their families;

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So were all those that were numbered of the children of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel;

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And all the firstborn males by the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen.

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Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,

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Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.

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Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Judah, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.

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Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers,

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These were the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.

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Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.

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Even those that were numbered of them, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers, were two thousand and six hundred and thirty.

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But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the Lord commanded Moses.

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