23:4 Then God met Balaam, who 1 said to him, “I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram.” 23:5 Then the Lord put a message 2 in Balaam’s mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and speak what I tell you.” 3
23:6 So he returned to him, and he was still 4 standing by his burnt offering, he and all the princes of Moab.
1 tn The relative pronoun is added here in place of the conjunction to clarify that Balaam is speaking to God and not vice versa.
2 tn Heb “word.”
3 tn Heb “and thus you shall speak.”
3 tn The Hebrew text draws the vividness of the scene with the deictic particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) – Balaam returned, and there he was, standing there.