²⁶ 2⁄5 of an ounce^[a] per man, that is, half a shekel according to the sanctuary shekel, from everyone 20 years old or more who had crossed over to the registered group, 603,550 men.

⁴⁶ All those registered numbered 603,550.^(A)

²¹ But Moses replied, “I’m in the middle of a people with 600,000 foot soldiers,^(A) yet You say, ‘I will give them meat, and they will eat for a month.’