³⁷ That night the people of Israel left Rameses and started for Succoth. There were about 600,000 men,^[a] plus all the women and children.

⁴⁶ The total number was 603,550.

²⁶ This silver came from the tax collected from each man registered in the census. (The tax is one beka, which is half a shekel,^[a] based on the sanctuary shekel.) The tax was collected from 603,550 men who had reached their twentieth birthday.

⁵ After leaving Rameses, the Israelites set up camp at Succoth.

³ They set out from the city of Rameses in early spring—on the fifteenth day of the first month^[a]—on the morning after the first Passover celebration. The people of Israel left defiantly, in full view of all the Egyptians.

²¹ But Moses responded to the Lord, “There are 600,000 foot soldiers here with me, and yet you say, ‘I will give them meat for a whole month!’

¹¹ So Joseph assigned the best land of Egypt—the region of Rameses—to his father and his brothers, and he settled them there, just as Pharaoh had commanded.

¹¹ So the Egyptians made the Israelites their slaves. They appointed brutal slave drivers over them, hoping to wear them down with crushing labor. They forced them to build the cities of Pithom and Rameses as supply centers for the king.

Results of the Registration

⁵¹ In summary, the registered troops of all Israel numbered 601,730.

³² In summary, the troops of Israel listed by their families totaled 603,550.