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"When you take a census of the Israelites to count them, each one must pay the LORD a ransom for his life at the time he is counted. Then no plague will come on them when you number them.
Each one who crosses over to those already counted is to give a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the LORD.
All who cross over, those twenty years old or more, are to give an offering to the LORD.
Exodus Chapter 30: Verses 12 - 14
one beka per person, that is, half a shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, from everyone who had crossed over to those counted, twenty years old or more, a total of 603,550 men.
Exodus Chapter 38: Verse 26
You and Aaron are to number by their divisions all the men in Israel twenty years old or more who are able to serve in the army.
Numbers Chapter 1: Verse 3
and they called the whole community together on the first day of the second month. The people indicated their ancestry by their clans and families, and the men twenty years old or more were listed by name, one by one,
as the LORD commanded Moses. And so he counted them in the Desert of Sinai:
From the descendants of Reuben the firstborn son of Israel: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, one by one, according to the records of their clans and families.
Numbers Chapter 1: Verses 18 - 20
The LORD said to Moses in the Desert of Sinai,
"Count the Levites by their families and clans. Count every male a month old or more."
So Moses counted them, as he was commanded by the word of the LORD.
Numbers Chapter 3: Verses 14 - 16
After the plague the LORD said to Moses and Eleazar son of Aaron, the priest,
"Take a census of the whole Israelite community by families,all those twenty years old or more who are able to serve in the army of Israel."
Numbers Chapter 26: Verses 1 - 2
Again the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, "Go and take a census of Israel and Judah."
2 Samuel Chapter 24: Verse 1
Solomon took a census of all the aliens who were in Israel, after the census his father David had taken; and they were found to be 153,600.
2 Chronicles Chapter 2: Verse 17
In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world.
(This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.)
And everyone went to his own town to register.
Luke Chapter 2: Verses 1 - 3
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