This means ¹  it is not the children of the flesh ²  who are the children of God; rather, the children of promise are counted as descendants.

Those numbered from the Gershonites, by their families and by their clans,

When they saw the chest was full of silver, the royal secretary ¹  and the high priest counted the silver that had been brought to the Lord’s temple and bagged it up. ² 

Everything was verified ¹  by number and by weight, and the total weight was written down at that time.

blessed is the one ¹  against whom the Lord will never count ²  sin.” ³ 

“‘If ¹  she becomes clean from her discharge, then she is to count off for herself seven days, and afterward she will be clean.

You must count fifty days – until the day after the seventh Sabbath – and then ¹  you must present a new grain offering to the Lord.

“‘You must count off ¹  seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, ²  and the days of the seven weeks of years will amount to forty-nine years. ³ 

Now King Solomon and all the Israelites who had assembled with him went on ahead of the ark and sacrificed more sheep and cattle than could be counted or numbered. ¹ 

Some of them were in charge of the articles used by those who served; they counted them when they brought them in and when they brought them out. ¹ 

Now King Solomon and all the Israelites who had assembled with him went on ahead of the ark and sacrificed more sheep and cattle than could be counted or numbered. ¹ 

King Cyrus of Persia entrusted ¹  them to ²  Mithredath ³  the treasurer, who counted them out to Sheshbazzar ⁴  the leader of the Judahite exiles. ⁵ 

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

But there was not a man among these who had been ¹  among those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they numbered the Israelites in the wilderness of Sinai.

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

Why should we be regarded as beasts, and considered stupid ¹  in your sight?

¹ Yet God ²  finds occasions ³  with me; he regards me as his enemy!

You counted the houses in Jerusalem, ¹  and demolished houses so you could have material to reinforce the wall. ² 

Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Instead, keeping God’s commandments is what counts.

and said to him, ¹  “Your servants have taken a count ²  of the men who were in the battle, who were under our authority, ³  and not one is missing.