Bible Strands
Numbers 26:51
These men of Israel numbered 601,730 in all.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator concludes the second census record after listing the tribal registrations, immediately preceding the LORD’s next command to Moses.
The words — The Hebrew term פְּקוּדֵי (pe.ku.Dei) denotes the enrolled men, while שֵׁשׁ־מֵאוֹת (shesh-me'ot) literally reads six hundred.
The thread — This tally appears alongside the first census total in Numbers 1:46, the exodus figure in Exodus 12:37, and the sanctuary tax calculation in Exodus 38:26.
Why it lands — The text reports a precise headcount of 601,730 men, requiring the reader to track how the census data functions as a structural marker between tribal listings and divine instruction.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
These were the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.
Cross-references
- Numbers 1:46 And all those counted totaled 603,550.
- Exodus 12:37 The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth with about 600,000 men on foot, besides women and children.
- Exodus 38:26 a 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.
- Numbers 2:32 These are the Israelites, numbered according to their families. The total of those counted in the camps, by their divisions, was 603,550.
- Numbers 11:21 But 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.’
- Nehemiah 9:23 You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You had told their fathers to enter and possess.
- Job 12:9 Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?
- Job 12:14 What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.
- Job 12:20 He deprives the trusted of speech and takes away the discernment of elders.
- Psalms 77:20 You led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.