“To these the land must be divided as an inheritance according to the number of the names.

God was also offended by it, ¹  so he attacked Israel.

The silver of those who were numbered of the community was one hundred talents and 1,775 shekels, ¹  according to the sanctuary shekel,

Then the leaders of Israel, the heads of their clans, ¹  made an offering. They were the leaders of the tribes; they were the ones who had been supervising ²  the numbering.

Jehoash said to the priests, “I place at your disposal ¹  all the consecrated silver that has been brought to the Lord’s temple, including the silver collected from the census tax, ²  the silver received from those who have made vows, ³  and all the silver that people have voluntarily contributed to the Lord’s temple. ⁴ 

Everyone who crosses over to those numbered, from twenty years old and up, is to pay an offering to the Lord.

But the Levites were not numbered among the other Israelites, as the Lord commanded Moses.

“Number the Levites by their clans ¹  and their families; every male from a month old and upward you are to number.” ² 

So Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab, by the Jordan River ¹  across from Jericho. ²  They said,

These were those numbered of the Israelites, 601,730. ¹ 

The land must be divided by lot; and they will inherit in accordance with the names of their ancestral tribes.

They went through all the land and after nine months and twenty days came back to Jerusalem. ¹ 

The Levites who were thirty years old and up were counted; there were 38,000 men. ¹ 

The Lord writes in the census book of the nations, ¹  “This one was born there.” ²  (Selah)

one beka per person, that is, a half shekel, ¹  according to the sanctuary shekel, for everyone who crossed over to those numbered, from twenty years old or older, ²  603,550 in all. ³ 

The king told Joab, the general in command of his army, “Go through all the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beer Sheba and muster the army, so I may know the size of the army.”

Joab reported to David the number of warriors. ¹  In all Israel there were 1,100,000 ²  sword-wielding soldiers; Judah alone had 470,000 sword-wielding soldiers. ³ 

David felt guilty ¹  after he had numbered the army. David said to the Lord, “I have sinned greatly by doing this! Now, O Lord, please remove the guilt of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”

Everyone who crosses over to those who are numbered ¹  is to pay this: a half shekel ²  according to the shekel of the sanctuary ³  (a shekel weighs twenty gerahs). The half shekel is to be an offering ⁴  to the Lord.

According to the word of the Lord they were numbered, ¹  by the authority of Moses, each according to his service and according to what he was to carry. ²  Thus were they numbered by him, ³  as the Lord had commanded Moses.