Numbers 22:19
New International Version
Now spend the night here so that I can find out what else the LORD will tell me.”

New Living Translation
But stay here one more night, and I will see if the LORD has anything else to say to me.”

English Standard Version
So you, too, please stay here tonight, that I may know what more the LORD will say to me.”

Berean Standard Bible
So now, please stay here overnight as the others did, that I may find out what else the LORD has to tell me.”

King James Bible
Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will say unto me more.

New King James Version
Now therefore, please, you also stay here tonight, that I may know what more the LORD will say to me.”

New American Standard Bible
Now please, you also stay here tonight, and I will find out what else the LORD will say to me.”

NASB 1995
“Now please, you also stay here tonight, and I will find out what else the LORD will speak to me.”

NASB 1977
“And now please, you also stay here tonight, and I will find out what else the LORD will speak to me.”

Legacy Standard Bible
So now, please, you also stay here tonight, and I will know what else Yahweh will speak to me.”

Amplified Bible
Now please, you also stay here tonight, and I will find out what else the LORD will say to me.”

Christian Standard Bible
Please stay here overnight as the others did, so that I may find out what else the LORD has to tell me.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Please stay here overnight as the others did, so that I may find out what else the LORD has to tell me.”

American Standard Version
Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what Jehovah will speak unto me more.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Therefore stay also here for the night and I shall know what LORD JEHOVAH continues to speak with me.”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And now do ye also tarry here this night, and I shall know what the Lord will yet say to me.

Contemporary English Version
You are welcome to spend the night here, just as the others did. I will find out if the LORD has something else to say about this."

Douay-Rheims Bible
I pray you to stay here this night also, that I may know what the Lord will answer me once more.

English Revised Version
Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will speak unto me more.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Now, why don't you stay here tonight, as the others did, and I'll find out what else the LORD may have to tell me."

Good News Translation
But please spend the night, as the others did, so that I may learn whether or not the LORD has something else to tell me."

International Standard Version
Meanwhile, stay here overnight so I may learn what the LORD might say to me."

JPS Tanakh 1917
Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will speak unto me more.'

Literal Standard Version
and now, please abide in this [place], you also, tonight, then I know what YHWH is adding to speak with me.”

Majority Standard Bible
So now, please stay here overnight as the others did, that I may find out what else the LORD has to tell me.”

New American Bible
But, you too stay here overnight, so that I may learn what else the LORD may say to me.”

NET Bible
Now therefore, please stay the night here also, that I may know what more the LORD might say to me."

New Revised Standard Version
You remain here, as the others did, so that I may learn what more the LORD may say to me.”

New Heart English Bible
Now therefore, you also stay here tonight, that I may know what else the LORD will say to me."

Webster's Bible Translation
Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will say to me more.

World English Bible
Now therefore please stay here tonight as well, that I may know what else Yahweh will speak to me.”

Young's Literal Translation
and, now, abide, I pray you, in this place, you also, to-night; and I know what Jehovah is adding to speak with me.'

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Balak Summons Balaam
18But Balaam replied to the servants of Balak, “If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything small or great to go beyond the command of the LORD my God. 19So now, please stay here overnight as the others did, that I may find out what else the LORD has to tell me.” 20That night God came to Balaam and said, “Since these men have come to summon you, get up and go with them, but you must only do what I tell you.”…

Cross References
Numbers 22:18
But Balaam replied to the servants of Balak, "If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything small or great to go beyond the command of the LORD my God.

Numbers 22:20
That night God came to Balaam and said, "Since these men have come to summon you, get up and go with them, but you must only do what I tell you."


Treasury of Scripture

Now therefore, I pray you, tarry you also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will say to me more.

Numbers 22:7,8
And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Balaam, and spake unto him the words of Balak…

1 Timothy 6:9,10
But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition…

2 Peter 2:3,15
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not…

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(19) Tarry ye also here this night.--Balaam knew that God was "not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent" (Numbers 23:19); and yet he indulged the vain expectation that he might be allowed to curse those whom God had declared to be blessed.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
So now,
וְעַתָּ֗ה (wə·‘at·tāh)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb
Strong's 6258: At this time

please
נָ֥א (nā)
Interjection
Strong's 4994: I pray', 'now', 'then'

stay
שְׁב֨וּ (šə·ḇū)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry

here
בָזֶ֛ה (ḇā·zeh)
Preposition-b | Pronoun - masculine singular
Strong's 2088: This, that

overnight
הַלָּ֑יְלָה (hal·lā·yə·lāh)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3915: A twist, night, adversity

as the others did,
גַּם־ (gam-)
Conjunction
Strong's 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and

that I may find out
וְאֵ֣דְעָ֔ה (wə·’ê·ḏə·‘āh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative - first person common singular
Strong's 3045: To know

what
מַה־ (mah-)
Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

else
יֹּסֵ֥ף (yō·sêp̄)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect Jussive - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3254: To add, augment

the LORD
יְהוָ֖ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

has to tell me.”
דַּבֵּ֥ר (dab·bêr)
Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct
Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue


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