Also a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a cereal offering: There had to be a grain offering with each daily burnt offering. For a tenth of an ephah, see Num 5.15; for fine flour, see 6.15; and for cereal offering, see 4.16.

Mixed with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil: Olive oil had to be mixed with the fine flour of the grain offering. For a fourth of a hin, see 15.4-5. Beaten oil refers to olive oil that was produced by pounding the olives in a mortar with a pestle rather than by crushing them in an oil press. This process produced pure olive oil that did not contain pieces of crushed olive pits, so Good News Translation says “the best olive oil.”

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 .