Discovery BoxNumbers 9:8 
Context9:8 So Moses said to them, “Remain 1 here and I will hear 2 what the Lord will command concerning you.”
Numbers 22:19
Context22:19 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
Context23:15 And Balaam 5 said to Balak, “Station yourself here 6 by your burnt offering, while I meet the Lord there.
Numbers 23:29
Context23:29 Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars here for me, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams.”
Numbers 32:6
Context32:6 Moses said to the Gadites and the Reubenites, “Must your brothers go to war while you 7 remain here?
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
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
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.”
