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Numbers 11:21

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Moses said, “Lord, there are 600,000 men walking around here. And you say, ‘I will give them enough meat to eat for a whole month!’

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I will build a great nation from you. I will bless you and make your name famous. People will use your name to bless other people.

The people of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth. There were about 600,000 men. This does not include the children.

All the men 20 years old or older were counted. There were 603,550 men, and each man had to pay a tax of 1 beqa [445] of silver. (Using the official measure, a beqa is 1Ú2 shekel. [446])

The total number of men counted was 603,550 men.

I don’t have enough meat for all these people! And they continue complaining to me. They say, ‘Give us meat to eat!’

You will eat that meat for a whole month. You will eat the meat until you are sick of it. This will happen to you because you complained against the Lord. The Lord lives among you and knows what you need. But you cried and complained to him! You said, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?’”

If we were to kill all of the sheep and cattle, then that would still not be enough to feed this many people for a month. And if we caught all the fish in the sea, it would not be enough for them!”

So those were the people of Israel. They were counted by families. The total number of Israelite men in the camps, counted by groups, [25] is 603,550.

So the total number of men of Israel was 601,730.




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