²⁶ one-fifth of an ounce^[a] per man, that is, half a shekel according to the sanctuary shekel, from everyone twenty 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 six hundred thousand foot soldiers,^(A) yet you say, ‘I will give them meat, and they will eat for a month.’