NET Bible
"So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been mentioned specifically by name,"
— Numbers 1:17, NET Bible
“And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by their names:”
“And Moses and Aaron took these men that are mentioned by name: ”
“Moses and Aaron took these men who are mentioned by name.”
“Whom Moses and Aaron took with all the multitude of the common people:”
“And Moses and Aaron took these men, marked out by name;”
“And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by their names:”
from Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel;
from Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan.”
The Census of the Tribes These were the ones chosen from the community, leaders of their ancestral tribes. They were the heads of the thousands of Israel.
So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been mentioned specifically by name,
and they assembled the entire community together on the first day of the second month. Then the people recorded their ancestry by their clans and families, and the men who were twenty years old or older were listed by name individually,
just as the LORD had commanded Moses. And so he numbered them in the desert of Sinai.
And they were as follows:The descendants of Reuben, the firstborn son of Israel: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name individually.