These are those who were listed, whom Moses and Aaron listed with the help of the chiefs of Israel, twelve men, each representing his fathers’ house. So all those listed of the people of Israel, by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war in Israel— all those listed were 603,550.
Numbers 1:44-46 English Standard Version
So if you figured that nearly all of them were married, as was typical in that culture, you're looking at 1.2 million Israelites. Then if each family typically had 5-20 children, you're looking at possibly 11 million Israelites just a year or two after they escaped Egypt. Whoa.
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