King James Version
Numbers 9:8 in the King James Version says “And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the LORD will command concerning you.” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 9 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the LORD will command concerning you.”
Numbers 9:8 · KJV
And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:
And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel?
And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the LORD will command concerning you.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“unto them Stand still”
H5975to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
“and I will hear”
H8085to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and
“what the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
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