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Balak Summons Balaam

Numbers 22:19

In 11 translations

BSB
So now, please stay here overnight as the others did, that I may find out what else the LORD has to tell me.”
KJV
Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will say unto me more.
WEB
Now therefore please stay here tonight as well, that I may know what else Yahweh will speak to me.”
ASV
Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what Jehovah will speak unto me more.
LSV
and now, please abide in this [place], you also, tonight, then I know what YHWH is adding to speak with me.”
YLT
and, now, abide, I pray you, in this [place], you also, to-night; and I know what Jehovah is adding to speak with me.'
DBY
And now, I pray you, abide ye also here this night, and I shall know what Jehovah will say to me further.
DRC
I pray you to stay here this night also, that I may know what the Lord will answer me once more.
GNV
But nowe, I pray you, tary here this night, that I may wit, what the Lord will say vnto mee more.
JPS
Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will speak unto me more.'
LXXE
And now do ye also tarry here this night, and I shall know what the Lord will yet say to me.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וְעַתָּ֗ה שְׁב֨וּ נָ֥א בָזֶ֛ה גַּם־אַתֶּ֖ם הַלָּ֑יְלָה וְאֵ֣דְעָ֔ה מַה־יֹּסֵ֥ף יְהוָ֖ה דַּבֵּ֥ר עִמִּֽי׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ νῦν ὑπομείνατε αὐτοῦ καὶ ὑμεῖς τὴν νύκτα ταύτην, καὶ γνώσομαι τί προσθήσει Κύριος λαλῆσαι πρὸς μέ.

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  • Jude 1:11Woe to them! They have traveled the path of Cain; they have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam; they have perished in Korah’s rebellion.
  • 2 Peter 2:3In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.
  • 2 Peter 2:15They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.
  • 1 Timothy 6:9–10Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By…
  • Numbers 22:7–8The elders of Moab and Midian departed with the fees for divination in hand. They came to Balaam and relayed to him the words of Balak. “Spend the night here,” Balaam replied, “and I will give you the answer that the…

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