Numbers 3:40-43 Census or Numbers? Numbered and Sealed! 📜

 40Then the LORD said to Moses, “Number every firstborn male of the Israelites a month old or more, and list their names. 41You are to take the Levites for Me—I am the LORD—in place of all the firstborn of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites in place of all the firstborn of the livestock of the Israelites.”

42So Moses numbered all the firstborn of the Israelites, as the LORD had commanded him. 43The total number of the firstborn males a month old or more, listed by name, was 22,273.

Census or Numbers? Numbered and Sealed! 📜 

“Number every firstborn male of the Israelites a month old or more, and list their names.” 📜 

How did the Book of Numbers get its name?

The Book of Numbers is one of three books of the Torah that follows the story of the Israelites' exodus from Egypt. 

The first book, Exodus, recounts the Israelites struggles in Egypt and their flight into the desert. 

The second book, Leviticus, accounts for a less than two-month period at the base of Mount Sinai where they camped and were given the Laws.

The third book, Numbers concludes the story of the exodus.

The Book of Numbers is named after the “census” (numbering) that the Israelites conducted while in the wilderness for 38 years. 

Numbers chapter 1, The First Census of Israel. 

Numbers chapter 26, The Second Census of Israel. 

Did you know if you were counted (numbered and sealed) as His (Jesus)? 📜 

Ephesians 1:13 13And in Him, having heard and believed the word of truth—the gospel of your salvation—you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, 14who is the pledge of our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession, to the praise of His glory.

Philippians 4:3 And I ask you, my true partner, to help these two women, for they worked hard with me in telling others the Good News. They worked along with Clement and the rest of my co-workers, whose names are written in the Book of Life.

Revelation 3:5 All who are victorious will be clothed in white. I will never erase their names from the Book of Life, but I will announce before my Father and his angels that they are mine.

Revelation 20:15 And if anyone was found whose name was not written in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

Blessings