במדבר, פרק א׳, פסוק כ״ג

The census of the Israelites carefully documents the military strength of the tribes, noting that the men of Simeon total fifty-nine thousand, three hundred soldiers ready for service. The preservation of these exact figures relies on an incredibly precise scribal tradition. For instance, the term used to express hundreds is consistently written in its full spelling throughout the biblical records, just as it is in this specific census count.

There are only three rare exceptions in the entire text where a shortened spelling is used. Over time, early printing traditions made a slight error in tracking these anomalies. They mistakenly assumed one of these rare shortened spellings occurred in the account of Abraham weighing out silver to purchase a burial plot. In reality, the true exception is found during the negotiation just before that action, when the seller first names the price of the land [מנחת שי].