Numbers 1:17

17 And Moses taketh -- Aaron also -- these men, who were defined by name,

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 `For Naphtali -- Ahira son of Enan.'
16 These [are] those called of the company, princes of the tribes of their fathers; they [are] heads of the thousands of Israel.
17 And Moses taketh -- Aaron also -- these men, who were defined by name,
18 and all the company they assembled on the first of the second month, and they declare their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names from a son of twenty years and upward, by their polls,
19 as Jehovah hath commanded Moses; and he numbereth them in the wilderness of Sinai.
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