And it was offered by them that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upwards, of six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty men able to bear arms.
When thou shalt take the sum of the children of Israel according to their number, every one of them shall give a price for their souls to the Lord: and there shall be no scourge among them, when they shall be reckoned.
Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel by their families, and houses: and the names of every one, as many as are of the male sex,
And the money received, which was contributed by the children of Israel, thou shalt deliver unto the uses of the tabernacle of the testimony: that it may be a memorial of them before the Lord, and he may be merciful to their souls.