Numbers are not numbers to God: each one of us is individually named and each one of us is individually known and each is counted and each is precious to God. "I have called you by name, you are mine."

How awesome it is, that the people of Israel were counted, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, by their polls - that is individually - and there is order in the manner of their counting, that each of the sons of Israel had a prince who would work with Moses and Aaron to count the great number who had been born and grown up in the 40 years of being in the wilderness.

How astonishing that this people had kept such records and each was named and organised by families, by the house of their fathers.

How huge is the number of people who had been 70 in number when Jacob came to Egypt during the time ...