“Which cannot be measured and cannot be counted,” Rabbi Simlai said: What is this matter? Does one who says that they have a number then say that there is no number – “cannot be measured and cannot be counted”? Rather, when they are not performing the will of the Omnipresent, they have a number, as they are no fewer than six hundred thousand; “the number will be” [then there will be a number]. When they are performing the will of the Omnipresent, they have no number, but rather, “which cannot be measured and cannot be counted.”
Another matter, “which cannot be measured and cannot be counted,” Rabbi Simon said in the name of Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi: Does one who says that they have a number then say that there is no number; “cannot be measured and cannot be counted”? If they have no number, how do they have a number? When it says: “The son of the Israelite woman went out…” (Leviticus 24:10), “He brought his household near, by man; and Akhan, son of Karmi…was indicated” (Joshua 7:18), “The name of the man of Israel who was slain…Zimri son of Salu” (Numbers 25:14); these have a number.43The unrighteous have a number. The righteous cannot be counted. But the righteous, “which cannot be measured and cannot be counted.”