And So Was Counting
That's how he was a writer. In the question: And that's how one should write.
("He took the blood from the water that was in it, and gathered it into the place where it was gathered...and so it was, one by one, and one by one, and two by one, and three by one, and four by one, and five by one, and six by one, and seven by one, and he brought it out and placed it on the golden altar that was in the temple" - Yom 5:2)
Translation
Expression (Hebrew)
וְכָךְ הָיָה מוֹנֶה
Definition (Hebrew)
כָּךְ הוּא הָיָה סוֹפֵר. בְּהַשְׁאָלָה: וְכָךְ יֵשׁ לִסְפֹּור.
("נָטַל אֶת הַדָּם מִמִּי שֶׁהָיָה מְמָרֵס בּוֹ נִכְנַס לַמָּקוֹם שֶׁנִּכְנַס...וְכָךְ הָיָה מוֹנֶה אַחַת אַחַת וְאַחַת אַחַת וּשְׁתַּיִם אַחַת וְשָׁלֹשׁ אַחַת וְאַרְבַּע אַחַת וְחָמֵשׁ אַחַת וְשֵׁשׁ אַחַת וָשֶׁבַע יָצָא וְהִנִּיחוֹ עַל כַּן הַזָּהָב שֶׁבַּהֵיכָל"- יוֹמָא ה ב)