But offer a burnt offering, a pleasing odor to the LORD: For the contrastive conjunction but, see the comments on verse 19. Offer renders the Hebrew verb hiqrib again (see verse 2). For burnt offering (ʿolah in Hebrew), see verse 3; for a pleasing odor to the LORD, see verse 2.

Two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old: See verse 11. These were the animals the Israelites had to offer as burnt offerings at the Harvest Festival. Good News Translation adds the implied phrase “all without any defects,” which other languages may find helpful.

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 .