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Exodus chapter 38 versus 25 and 26.

The silver from those of the congregation who were recorded was a hundred talents and

one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels by the shekel of the sanctuary.

26 Abeka ahead that is half a shekel by the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who was listed in the records from 20 years old and upward for 603,550 men.

Now you're hearing that and you're thinking, I'm guessing,

what in the world do we get out of that?

Sheckels and talents and Ab becca ahead and half a shekel and six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty men but that that's just it so that last part

when I was reading this it just hit me in a fresh way like 603, 550 like God knew down to the individual.

Like 603,550 like God knew down to the individual, the number of men here.

And in the same way he knew the number of women and the number of children.

Like God knows all the details here.

Like every one of those 603,550 people

is important to him, is significant in his eyes.

So it's not just generalities.

The Bible could have said for hundreds of thousands of men,

this ambiguous, even over 600,000 men.

Instead, it gives the exact number.

And I, that, that struck me because I am,

I'm tempted to think more general in numbers like I talk a lot about how there's 2.8 billion

people in the world who have little to know knowledge of the gospel. They're unreached by the gospel.

So I throw out a number like that, 2.8 billion people.

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