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God rewards him by giving his descendants an everlasting priesthood. God also tells the Israelites to consider the Midianites their enemies. A new census gives the total number of men from twenty years and upward as 601,730, and the number of the Levites from the age of one month and upward as 23,000. The land shall be divided by lot.
The Census of Quirinius was a census of the Roman province of Judaea taken in 6 CE, upon its formation, by the governor of Roman Syria, Publius Sulpicius Quirinius. The census triggered a revolt of Jewish extremists (called Zealots ) led by Judas of Galilee .
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good." [q] Gordon Gekko: Michael Douglas: Wall Street: 1987 58 "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer." [r] Michael Corleone: Al Pacino: The Godfather Part II: 1974 59 "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again." Scarlett O'Hara: Vivien Leigh: Gone with the Wind: 1939 60
God Is Not Great (sometimes stylized as god is not Great) [1] is a 2007 book by author and journalist Christopher Hitchens in which he makes a case against organized religion.
Findings from the Office for National Statistics represent a snapshot in time on a single day on March 21 last year.
A census in May 1939, six years into the Nazi era [1] and a year following the annexations of Austria and Czechoslovakia [2] into Germany, indicates [3] that 54% of the population considered itself Protestant, 41% considered itself Catholic, 3.5% self-identified as Gottgläubig [4] (lit. "believing in God"), [5] and 1.5% as "atheist". [4]
The percentage of people saying they had no religion jumped from 25.2% in 2011 to over a third in 2021 (37.2%).
Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...