diff --git a/lib/internal/util.js b/lib/internal/util.js
index 1ff25dbc7d2a86..0a319739187fab 100644
--- a/lib/internal/util.js
+++ b/lib/internal/util.js
@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ const {
   getHiddenValue,
   setHiddenValue,
   arrow_message_private_symbol: kArrowMessagePrivateSymbolIndex,
-  decorated_private_symbol: kDecoratedPrivateSymbolIndex
+  decorated_private_symbol: kDecoratedPrivateSymbolIndex,
+  sleep: _sleep
 } = internalBinding('util');
 const { isNativeError } = internalBinding('types');
 
@@ -385,6 +386,17 @@ function once(callback) {
   };
 }
 
+let validateUint32;
+
+function sleep(msec) {
+  // Lazy-load to avoid a circular dependency.
+  if (validateUint32 === undefined)
+    ({ validateUint32 } = require('internal/validators'));
+
+  validateUint32(msec, 'msec');
+  _sleep(msec);
+}
+
 module.exports = {
   assertCrypto,
   cachedResult,
@@ -402,6 +414,7 @@ module.exports = {
   normalizeEncoding,
   once,
   promisify,
+  sleep,
   spliceOne,
   removeColors,
 
diff --git a/src/node_util.cc b/src/node_util.cc
index 07a7b69dbd9db4..b9553eaaa6763d 100644
--- a/src/node_util.cc
+++ b/src/node_util.cc
@@ -169,6 +169,12 @@ static void SetHiddenValue(const FunctionCallbackInfo<Value>& args) {
   args.GetReturnValue().Set(maybe_value.FromJust());
 }
 
+static void Sleep(const FunctionCallbackInfo<Value>& args) {
+  CHECK(args[0]->IsUint32());
+  uint32_t msec = args[0].As<Uint32>()->Value();
+  uv_sleep(msec);
+}
+
 void ArrayBufferViewHasBuffer(const FunctionCallbackInfo<Value>& args) {
   CHECK(args[0]->IsArrayBufferView());
   args.GetReturnValue().Set(args[0].As<ArrayBufferView>()->HasBuffer());
@@ -290,6 +296,7 @@ void Initialize(Local<Object> target,
   env->SetMethodNoSideEffect(target, "getOwnNonIndexProperties",
                                      GetOwnNonIndexProperties);
   env->SetMethodNoSideEffect(target, "getConstructorName", GetConstructorName);
+  env->SetMethod(target, "sleep", Sleep);
 
   env->SetMethod(target, "arrayBufferViewHasBuffer", ArrayBufferViewHasBuffer);
   Local<Object> constants = Object::New(env->isolate());
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-util-sleep.js b/test/parallel/test-util-sleep.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..e4cc62b8e07d64
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/parallel/test-util-sleep.js
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+// Flags: --expose-internals
+'use strict';
+require('../common');
+const assert = require('assert');
+const { sleep } = require('internal/util');
+
+[undefined, null, '', {}, true, false].forEach((value) => {
+  assert.throws(
+    () => { sleep(value); },
+    /The "msec" argument must be of type number/
+  );
+});
+
+[-1, 3.14, NaN, 4294967296].forEach((value) => {
+  assert.throws(
+    () => { sleep(value); },
+    /The value of "msec" is out of range/
+  );
+});