## took these men ##

"gathered these men together"

## who were recorded by name ##

AT: "whose names they had recorded" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])

## Then each man...identified his ancestry. He had to name the clans and families descended from his ancestors ##

The second sentence means basically the same thing as the first and is added for clarification. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])

## He had to name ##

AT: "Each man had to say" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])