These men of Israel numbered 601,730 in all.
Parallel translations
- WEB These are those who were counted of the children of Israel, six hundred one thousand seven hundred thirty.
- KJV These were the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.
- NKJV These are those who were numbered of the children of Israel: six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and thirty.
- NASB These are the ones who were numbered of the sons of Israel, 601,730.
- NLT In summary, the registered troops of all Israel numbered 601,730.
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Quick answer
The whole second-generation census totals 601,730 fighting men.
Overview
The grand total of 601,730 is remarkably close to the 603,550 counted at Sinai (Numbers 1:46), even though that entire first generation, save Caleb and Joshua, had died. That God replaced a fallen generation with one nearly equal in number proves His covenant faithfulness endures beyond human failure, pointing to the steadfast love that secures His people in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
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- Num 1:46And all those counted totaled 603,550.
- Ps 77:20You led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
- Job 12:9–10Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?
- Job 12:20–23He deprives the trusted of speech and takes away the discernment of elders.
- Num 11:21But Moses replied, “Here I am among 600,000 men on foot, yet You say, ‘I will give them meat, and they will eat for a month.’
- Exod 12:37The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth with about 600,000 men on foot, besides women and children.
- Neh 9:23You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You had told their fathers to enter and possess.
- Job 12:14What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.
- Num 2:32These are the Israelites, numbered according to their families. The total of those counted in the camps, by their divisions, was 603,550.
- Exod 38:26a beka per person, that is, half a shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, from everyone twenty years of age or older who had crossed over to be numbered, a total of 603,550 men.
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In the wilderness Christ is the water from the rock, the bronze serpent lifted up that the dying might look and live (John 3:14), and the star and scepter that Balaam saw rising out of Jacob.
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