This was the list of the people of Israel, 601,730.
all those listed were 603,550.
You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
He deprives of speech those who are trusted and takes away the discernment of the elders. He pours contempt on princes and loosens the belt of the strong. He uncovers the deeps out of darkness and brings deep darkness to light. He makes nations great, and he destroys them; he enlarges nations, and leads them away.
If he tears down, none can rebuild; if he shuts a man in, none can open.
Who among all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this? In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.
You multiplied their children as the stars of heaven, and you brought them into the land that you had told their fathers to enter and possess.
But Moses said, “The people among whom I am number six hundred thousand on foot, and you have said, ‘I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month!’
These are the people of Israel as listed by their fathers' houses. All those listed in the camps by their companies were 603,550.
a beka a head (that is, half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary), for everyone who was listed in the records, from twenty years old and upward, for 603,550 men.
And the people of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children.
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