Ezekiel 20:37

37. I will cause you to pass under the rod Not an Israelite shall be forgotten. As the shepherd with his rod checks the flock at night at the entrance to the sheepfold, and numbers his sheep, and separates them from other flocks and from the goats (Ezekiel 34:17-20; Leviticus 27:32; Jeremiah 33:13; compare Matthew 25:0), so will Jehovah count his people and separate his own true followers unto himself. Adam Clarke takes from the rabbins the statement that in giving tithes the shepherd stood at the door of the fold with a rod, dipped in vermilion, with which he marked every tenth sheep as it sprang past him.

I will bring you into the bond of the covenant The Syriac version has it, “I will bring you into the correction of the covenant;” but probably the best reading is that preserved by the LXX., “I will bring you into the land by number” (Isaiah 40:26; 1 Chronicles 9:28; Ezra 8:34).