Thematic Bible: Census taken, of the israelites
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And there standeth up an adversary against Israel, and persuadeth David to number Israel,
'Take up the sum of all the company of the sons of Israel, from a son of twenty years and upward, by the house of their fathers, every one going out to the host in Israel.'
And it came to pass in those days, there went forth a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world be enrolled --
Take ye up the sum of all the company of the sons of Israel by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names -- every male by their polls;
And the king saith unto Joab, head of the host that is with him, 'Go to and fro, I pray thee, through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even unto Beer-Sheba, and inspect ye the people -- and I have known the number of the people.'