Numbers 9:8

9:8 So Moses said to them, “Remain ¹  here and I will hear ²  what the Lord will command concerning you.”

Numbers 22:19

22:19 Now therefore, please stay ³  the night here also, that I may know what more the Lord might say to me.” ⁴ 

Numbers 23:15

23:15 And Balaam ⁵  said to Balak, “Station yourself here ⁶  by your burnt offering, while I meet the Lord there.

Numbers 23:29

23:29 Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars here for me, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams.”

Numbers 32:6

Moses’ Response

32:6 Moses said to the Gadites and the Reubenites, “Must your brothers go to war while you ⁷  remain here?

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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.”

³ tn In this case “lodge” is not used, but “remain, reside” (שְׁבוּ, shÿvu).

⁴ tn This clause is also a verbal hendiadys: “what the Lord might add to speak,” meaning, “what more the Lord might say.”

⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Balaam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶ tn The verse uses כֹּה (koh) twice: “Station yourself here…I will meet [the Lord] there.”

⁷ tn The vav (ו) is a vav disjunctive prefixed to the pronoun; it fits best here as a circumstantial clause, “while you stay here.”