5 He now brought him outside and said: “Look up, please, to the heavens and count the stars, if you are possibly able to count them.”+ And he went on to say to him: “So your seed will become.”+
3 And he went on to say: “I am the [true] God,+ the God of your father.*+ Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I shall constitute you there into a great nation.+
7 And the sons of Israel became fruitful and began to swarm; and they kept on multiplying and growing mightier at a very extraordinary rate, so that the land got to be filled with them.+
26 The half shekel* for an individual* was the half of a shekel by the shekel of the holy place, for every man who was passing over to those who were registered from twenty years of age and upward,+ amounting to six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.+
32 These were the registered ones of the sons of Israel according to the house of their fathers; all the registered ones of the camps in their armies were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.+
21 Then Moses said: “The people in the midst of whom I am are six hundred thousand men+ on foot, and yet you—you have said, ‘Meat I shall give them, and they will certainly eat for a month of days’!