but people ¹  are born ²  to trouble, as surely as the sparks ³  fly ⁴  upward. ⁵ 

The border of Amorite territory ran from the Scorpion Ascent ¹  to Sela and on up. ² 

Who really knows if the human spirit ¹  ascends upward, and the animal’s spirit descends into the earth?

The path of life is upward ¹  for the wise person, ²  to ³  keep him from going downward to Sheol. ⁴ 

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

Those of them who were numbered, counting every male from a month old and upward, were 6,200.

Those who remain in Judah will take root in the ground and bear fruit. ¹ 

Those who remain in Judah will take root in the ground and bear fruit. ¹ 

and the altar hearth, 7 feet, and from the altar hearth four horns projecting upward.

They will pass through the land ¹  destitute and starving. Their hunger will make them angry, ²  and they will curse their king and their God ³  as they look upward.

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

with this goal in mind, ¹  I strive toward the prize of the upward call of God ²  in Christ Jesus.

Those of them who were numbered, counting every male from a month old and upward, were 7,500.

Counting every male from a month old and upward, there were 8,600. They were responsible for the care ¹  of the sanctuary.

All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered by the word ¹  of the Lord, according to their families, every male from a month old and upward, were 22,000. ² 

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Number all the firstborn males of the Israelites from a month old and upward, and take ¹  the number of their names.

And all the firstborn males, by the number of the names from a month old and upward, totaled 22,273.

“This is what pertains to the Levites: ¹  At the age of twenty-five years ²  and upward one may begin to join the company ³  in the work of the tent of meeting,

Your dead bodies ¹  will fall in this wilderness – all those of you who were numbered, according to your full number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me.

“Take a census of the whole community of Israelites, from twenty years old and upward, by their clans, ¹  everyone who can serve in the army of Israel.” ²