With him I will speak face to face, openly, and not in riddles; and he will see the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”

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

Then they came very close to him and said, “We will build sheep folds here for our flocks and cities for our families,

He replied to them, “Stay here tonight, and I will bring back to you whatever word the Lord may speak to me.” So the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.