Bible Verses About Census

8 verses · 2 aspects

Key Bible Verses

  1. Exodus 30:12

    “When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are numbered among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to the LORD, when you number them; that there be no plague among them when you number them.

  2. Exodus 30:13

    They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary; (the shekel is twenty gerahs;) half a shekel for an offering to the LORD.

  3. Exodus 30:14

    Everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to the LORD.

  4. Exodus 30:15

    The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of the LORD, to make atonement for your souls.

  5. Exodus 30:16

    You shall take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the Tent of Meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD, to make atonement for your souls.”

  6. Luke 2:1

    Now in those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled.

  7. Luke 2:2

    This was the first enrollment made when Quirinius was governor of Syria.

  8. Luke 2:3

    All went to enroll themselves, everyone to his own city.