And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar: This verse is almost the same as verse 2 (see the comments there). The only difference is that here only Balak sacrificed the animals, but in verse 2 it was done by Balak and Balaam.

Quoted with permission from de Regt, Lénart J. and Wendland, Ernst R. A Handbook on Numbers. (UBS Helps for Translators). Miami: UBS, 2016. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .