They came up with their livestock and their tents like swarms of locusts. It was impossible to count them or their camels; they invaded the land to ravage it.
NIV
For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came like locusts for multitude; both they and their camels could not be counted. So they wasted the land as they entered it.
AMP
For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it.
KJV
He took him outside and said, "Look up at the heavens and count the stars – if indeed you can count them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be."
NIV
And He brought him outside [his tent into the starlight] and said, Look now toward the heavens and count the stars--if you are able to number them. Then He said to him, So shall your descendants be. [Heb. 11:12.]AMP
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
KJV
Count all the men from thirty to fifty years of age who come to serve in the work at the tent of meeting.
NIV
From thirty years old and up to fifty years old you shall number them, all who enter for service to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.
AMP
From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them; all that enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
KJV
All who are under the yoke of slavery should consider their masters worthy of full respect, so that God's name and our teaching may not be slandered.
NIV
LET ALL who are under the yoke as bond servants esteem their own [personal] masters worthy of honor and fullest respect, so that the name of God and the teaching [about Him] may not be brought into disrepute and blasphemed.
AMP
Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.
KJV
Count all the men from thirty to fifty years of age who come to serve in the work at the tent of meeting.
NIV
From thirty years old up to fifty years old you shall number them, everyone who enters the service to do the work of the Tent of Meeting.
AMP
From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old shalt thou number them, every one that entereth into the service, to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation.
KJV
Therefore, if you have disputes about such matters, do you ask for a ruling from those whose way of life is scorned in the church?
NIV
If then you do have such cases of everyday life to decide, why do you appoint [as judges to lay them before] those who [from the standpoint] of the church count for least and are without standing?
AMP
If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.
KJV
"From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks."
NIV
And you shall count from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, seven Sabbaths; [seven full weeks] shall they be.
AMP
And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:
KJV
Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God.
NIV
Not that we are fit (qualified and sufficient in ability) of ourselves to form personal judgments or to claim or count anything as coming from us, but our power and ability and sufficiency are from God.
AMP
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
KJV
"Count off seven sabbath years – seven times seven years – so that the seven sabbath years amount to a period of forty-nine years."
NIV
And you shall number seven sabbaths or weeks of years for you, seven times seven years, so the total time of the seven weeks of years shall be forty-nine years.
AMP
And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
KJV
