(Proclaiming): "Surely they are a small band (of fugitives).
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : ((who said): lo! these) the followers of moses (indeed are but a little troop) a small group,
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : ‘lo! these are but a small gang. it is said that they [the children of israel] numbered 670,000, while his [pharaoh’s] vanguard alone numbered 700,000 and so he deemed their number insignificant in comparison to his huge army.