They rose early in the morning and went to the top of the mount, saying, "Here we are. We will go up to the place that Yahweh said, because we have sinned."

Why have you brought the assembly of Yahweh, us and our livestock, into this desert to die here?

He said to them, "Spend the night here, and I will return, and I will return word to you, just as Yahweh speaks to me." So the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.

And now please, {you also stay here} the night, and {let me find out} again what Yahweh will say with me."

Balaam said to Balak, "Station yourself here at the burnt offering while I myself meet with [Yahweh] there."

But Moses said to the descendants of Gad and to the descendants of Reuben, "Will your brothers go to war while you yourselves live here?

They came near to him and said, "We will build sheep pens here for [the] flock of our livestock and cities for our little children;