These towns that you must give shall be your six towns for refuge.

And all those numbered totaled 603,550.

These were those numbered of the Israelites, 601,730.

the Lord’s tribute from the sheep was 675.

These are the Israelites, numbered according to their families. All those numbered in the camps, by their divisions, are 603,550.

Moses said, “The people around me are 600,000 on foot; but you say, ‘I will give them meat, that they may eat for a whole month.’

The spoil that remained of the plunder which the fighting men had gathered was 675,000 sheep,

These six towns will be places of refuge for the Israelites, and for the foreigner, and for the settler among them, so that anyone who kills any person accidentally may flee there.

They brought their offering before the Lord, six covered carts and twelve oxen – one cart for every two of the leaders, and an ox for each one; and they presented them in front of the tabernacle.

Now from these towns that you will give to the Levites you must select six towns of refuge to which a person who has killed someone may flee. And you must give them forty-two other towns.