And now if you will indeed hear My voice, and keep My covenant, you shall be to Me a peculiar people above all nations; for the whole earth is Mine.

And you shall be to Me a royal priesthood and a holy nation. These words shall you speak to the children of Israel.

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; and the Lord your God chose you to be to Him a peculiar people beyond all nations that [are] upon the face of the earth.

But because the Lord has loved you, and He is keeping the oath which He swore to your fathers; the Lord has brought you out with a strong hand, and the Lord has redeemed you from the house of bondage, out of the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

For the Lord will not cast off His people for His great name's sake, because the Lord graciously took you to Himself for a people.

He took him from following the ewes great with young, to be the shepherd of Jacob His servant, and Israel His inheritance.

And I will make your seed like the dust of the earth; if anyone is able to number the dust of the earth, then shall your seed be numbered.

And He brought him out and said to him, Look up now to heaven, and count the stars, if you shall be able to number them fully, and He said, Thus shall your seed be.

surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand which is by the shore of the sea, and your seed shall inherit the cities of their enemies.

And King David said to Joab and to the captains of the forces, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan, and bring me [the account], and I shall know their number.

And Joab gave the number of the mustering of the people to David. And all Israel was one million one hundred thousand men that drew the sword. And the sons of Judah [were] four hundred and seventy thousand men that drew the sword.

But he numbered not Levi and Benjamin among them; for the word of the king was painful to Joab.

But David took not their number from twenty years old and under, because the Lord said that he would multiply Israel as the stars of the heaven.

And Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number the people, but did not finish the work, for wrath came upon Israel; and the number was not recorded in the book of the chronicles of King David.