6:13 He had been hired to scare me so that I would do this and thereby sin. They would thus bring reproach on me and I 1 would be discredited. 2
Nehemiah 13:2
13:2 for they had not met the Israelites with food 3 and water, but instead had hired Balaam to curse them. (Our God, however, turned the curse into blessing.)
1 tc The translation reads לִי (li, “to me”) rather than the MT reading לָהֶם (lahem, “to them”).
2 tnHeb “would have a bad name.”
3 tnHeb “bread.” The Hebrew term is generic here, however, referring to more than bread alone.