Translation commentary on Numbers 29:3 - 29:4

Verses 3-4 deal with the grain offerings that had to accompany the burnt offerings of the New Year Festival.

Also their cereal offering of fine flour mixed with oil: See 28.20. The pronoun their refers to the burnt offerings mentioned in the previous verse.

Three tenths of an ephah for the bull, two tenths for the ram, and one tenth for each of the seven lambs: See 28.12-13.

New Century Version provides the following helpful model for these two verses:

• 3 With the bull give a grain offering of six quarts of fine flour mixed with [olive] oil. With the male sheep offer four quarts, 4 and with each of the seven [male] lambs offer two quarts.

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 .

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