Numbers 9:7-9

9:7 And those men said to him, “We are ceremonially defiled by the dead body of a man; why are we kept back from offering the Lord’s offering at its appointed time among the Israelites?” 9:8 So Moses said to them, “Remain ¹  here and I will hear ²  what the Lord will command concerning you.”

9:9 The Lord spoke to Moses:

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¹ tn The verb is simply “stand,” but in the more general sense of waiting to hear the answer.

² tn The cohortative may be subordinated to the imperative: “stand…[that I] may hear.”