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 15:34

15:34 They put him in custody, because there was no clear instruction about what should be done to him.

Numbers 23:8

23:8 How ³  can I curse ⁴  one whom God has not cursed,

or how can I denounce one whom the Lord has not denounced?

Numbers 24:22

24:22 Nevertheless the Kenite will be consumed. ⁵ 

How long will Asshur take you away captive?”

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 The figure is erotesis, a rhetorical question. He is actually saying he cannot curse them because God has not cursed them.

⁴ tn The imperfect tense should here be classified as a potential imperfect.

⁵ tc Heb “Nevertheless Cain will be wasted; how long will Asshur take you captive?” Cain was believed to be the ancestor of the Kenites. The NAB has “yet destined for burning, even as I watch, are your inhabitants.” Asshur may refer to a north Arabian group of people of Abrahamic stock (Gen 25:3), and not the Assyrian empire.