אֵ֗לֶּה פְּקוּדֵי֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל שֵׁשׁ־מֵא֥וֹת אֶ֖לֶף וָאָ֑לֶף שְׁבַ֥ע מֵא֖וֹת וּשְׁלֹשִֽׁים׃
This is the enrollment of the Israelites:* 601,730.
*the Israelites I.e., the militia, enrolled on the nation’s behalf.
(The above rendering and its footnote come from the RJPS translation, an adaptation of the NJPS translation. In this case, the translation itself has not been altered, while the footnote is newly added.)
The expression בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל is used here as a metonym. On this linguistic device in the Bible and the attendant translation challenges, see the section “Gender and Figurative Language” in this introduction, pp. 3–4.