Biblical Census

Many have known about a census and what it's purpose is.

In the Bible, there are a few accounts of the word census being utilized.

Sometimes, you have to take a look at where something originates, and why.

Numbers 1:2 "Take a census of all of the congregation of the people of Israel, by clans, by father's houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head"

Numbers 1:47 "But the Levites were not listed with them by their ancestral tribe"

Luke 2:2 "This census first took place while Quirinius was governing Syria"

Exodus 30:12 "When you take