Then the Lord said to Moses, "When you take a census of the Israelites to count them, each one must pay the Lord a ransom for his life at the time he is counted. Then no plague will come on them when you number them. Exodus 30:11-12
Sure he created billions of galaxies, each populated with billions of stars and billions of planets; but what God really wants is a kickback from a group of nomadic Bedouins. And thus, the world's first case of a protection money shakedown.
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