Numbers 1:17

17 Moses and Aaron took these men whose names had been specified,

Numbers 1:17 in Other Translations

17 And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by their names:

17 Moses and Aaron took these men who had been named,

17 So Moses and Aaron called together these chosen leaders,

17 Moses and Aaron took these men who had been named to help

17 And Moses and Aaron took these men that are mentioned by name:

17 Moses and Aaron took the men who had been named

17 So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name,

17 Moses and Aaron went and got the men whose names had been given to them.

Numbers 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.

Numbers 1:17 In-Context

15 from Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan.”

16 These were the men appointed from the community, the leaders of their ancestral tribes. They were the heads of the clans of Israel.

17 Moses and Aaron took these men whose names had been specified,

18 and they called the whole community together on the first day of the second month. The people registered their ancestry by their clans and families, and the men twenty years old or more were listed by name, one by one,

19 as the LORD commanded Moses. And so he counted them in the Desert of Sinai: