These are those who were numbered of the sons of Israel, 601,730.
“You made their sons numerous as the stars of heaven, And You brought them into the land Which You had said for their fathers to enter and possess.
“Behold, He pulls down, and it cannot be rebuilt; He closes a man in, and it cannot be opened.
You led Your people like a flock By the hand of Moses and Aaron.
And the sons of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, aside from the little ones.
a beka a head (that is, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary), for each one who passed over to those who were numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for 603,550 men.
even all the numbered men were 603,550.
But Moses said, “The people, among whom I am, are 600,000 on foot; yet You have said, ‘I will give them meat, so that they may eat for a whole month.’
These are the numbered men of the sons of Israel by their fathers’ households; the total of the numbered men of the camps by their armies, 603,550.
Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,