Verses 9-10 deal with the weekly offering, which took place on the Sabbath. In the Pentateuch this is the only passage that speaks of public offerings on the Sabbath. Translators may begin a new paragraph here with a subheading (see the introductory comments on this section). Good News Translation‘s heading for these two verses is “The Sabbath Offering” (similarly New Living Translation). NET Bible has “Weekly Offerings,” which removes the original emphasis on the Sabbath day.

On the sabbath day two male lambs a year old without blemish: There is no verb in the Hebrew text here, but most languages will need to add one, for example, “offer” (Good News Translation), “you must offer” (NET Bible), or “make this [regular] offering” (Chewa). For sabbath day, see 15.32; for two male lambs a year old without blemish, see verse 3.

And two tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a cereal offering, mixed with oil: See verse 5.

And its drink offering: See verse 7. The pronoun its probably refers to the offering by fire of the two male lambs, which had to be presented at the same time. Its drink offering may be rendered “the drink offering combined with it [or, belonging to it]” (similarly La Bible de Jérusalem Nouvelle, Herziene Statenvertaling, Bijbel: Vertaling in opdracht van het Nederlandsch Bijbelgenootschap), “the proper drink-offering” (Revised English Bible), “the proper libation” (New Jewish Publication Society’s Tanakh), or “the required libation” (Traduction œcuménique de la Bible).

New Living Translation has the following helpful model for this verse:

• “On the Sabbath day, sacrifice two one-year-old male lambs with no defects. They must be accompanied by a grain offering of four quarts of choice flour moistened with olive oil, and a liquid offering.

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 .