When they invaded ¹  with their cattle and tents, they were as thick ²  as locusts. Neither they nor their camels could be counted. ³  They came to devour ⁴  the land.

“Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him melt down ¹  the silver that has been brought by the people to the Lord’s temple and has been collected by the guards at the door.

Joab son of Zeruiah started to count the men but did not finish. God was angry with Israel ¹  because of this, so the number was not recorded in the scroll ²  called The Annals of King David.

In other words, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting people’s trespasses against them, and he has given us ¹  the message of reconciliation.

“‘When the man with the discharge becomes clean from his discharge he is to count off for himself seven days for his purification, and he must wash his clothes, bathe in fresh water, ¹  and be clean.

Abram believed ¹  the Lord, and the Lord ²  considered his response of faith ³  as proof of genuine loyalty. ⁴ 

So Moses numbered them according to the word ¹  of the Lord, just as he had been commanded. ² 

Those numbered from the families of the Merarites, by their families, by their clans,

It regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.

This brought him a reward, an eternal gift. ¹ 

for he was counted as one of us and received a share in this ministry.” ¹ 

“Only the tribe of Levi ¹  you must not number ²  or count ³  with ⁴  the other Israelites.

All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of Israel numbered by their families and by their clans,

Who by wisdom can count the clouds, and who can tip over ¹  the water jars of heaven,

After a priest ¹  has become ceremonially clean, they ²  must count off a period of seven days for him.

For ¹  neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for ²  anything; the only thing that matters is a new creation! ³ 

But these assets I have come to regard as liabilities because of Christ.

“You and Eleazar the priest, and all the family leaders of the community, take the sum ¹  of the plunder that was captured, both people and animals.

David did not count the males twenty years old and under, for the Lord had promised to make Israel as numerous as the stars in the sky.

So they left the council rejoicing because they had been considered worthy ¹  to suffer dishonor for the sake of the name. ²