Besides the continual burnt offering and its cereal offering, you shall offer them and their drink offering: In addition to the daily burnt offerings and their accompanying grain offerings described in verses 3-8, the Israelites had to offer the sacrifices mentioned in verses 27-30 during the Harvest Festival. The pronoun its refers to the continual burnt offering, that is, the offering by fire, with which the cereal offering was combined (see verses 5 and 8). As in verse 4, offer renders the generic Hebrew verb meaning “do” or “make.” For naturalness Good News Translation places this verb at the beginning of the verse, which other languages may find helpful. The pronouns them and their refer to the animals mentioned in verse 27. For drink offering, see 4.7 and 15.5.

See that they are without blemish: See verse 19. Good News Translation moves this sentence to verse 27 and renders it “all without any defects,” since the animals are first mentioned there. However, other languages may prefer to keep it here for emphasis.

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 .