So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name,
These were the elect of the community, leaders of their ancestral tribes, heads of the clans of Israel.
and assembled the whole community on the first day of the second month. Every man of twenty years or more then registered individually his name and lineage according to clan and ancestral house,
The gatekeeper opens it for him, and the sheep hear his voice, as he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.