Bamidbar 1:17

17 And Moshe and Aharon took these men which had been designated by their names;

Bamidbar 1:17 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 1:17

And Moses and Aaron took these men
They doubtless sent for them, and acquainted them with the nomination of them, by the Lord himself, for such a service; and they took them with them to the place where the number of the people was to be taken:

which are expressed by [their] names:
in ( Numbers 1:16 ) , and that as declared by the mouth of God himself.

Bamidbar 1:17 In-Context

15 Of Naphtali, Achira ben Enan.

16 These were the called men of the Edah, nasiim of the tribes of their avot, rashei alfei Yisroel (head-men of the clans of Yisroel).

17 And Moshe and Aharon took these men which had been designated by their names;

18 And they assembled kol HaEdah together on the first yom of the second month, and they declared their family after their mishpekhot, by the bais of their avot, according to the number of the shmot, from twenty years old and upward, one by one.

19 As Hashem commanded Moshe, so he counted them in the midbar of Sinai.