And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and you have said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.
A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty men.
But even a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome to you: because you have despised the LORD who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why did we come forth out of Egypt?
Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to be enough for them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be enough for them?
These are those which were numbered of the children of Israel by the house of their fathers: all those that were numbered of the camps throughout their hosts were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.