With one male goat, to make atonement for you: See verses 15 and 22. Unlike those verses, the Hebrew here does not specify what type of offering the billy goat had to be. However, the clause to make atonement for you suggests that the goat had to be offered “as a sin offering” (Good News Translation; similarly Septuagint) during the Harvest Festival. In most languages it will be helpful to translate this verse as a separate sentence (so Good News Translation).

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 .