And the other lamb you shall offer in the evening follows the pattern of verse 39. (See the comment there.) And shall offer with it is literally “you [singular] shall do to it.” A cereal offering refers to the same kind of flour offering described in verse 40, but here it is called the cereal offering, in Hebrew minchah, which literally means “a gift.” New Jewish Publication Society’s Tanakh calls it a “meal offering,” and New Revised Standard Version now has “grain offering.” Good News Translation calls it “a food offering.” (Further description of the minchah offering may be found in Leviticus 2.) And its libation refers to the same kind of “drink offering” as in verse 40.

As in the morning means not only the same kinds of offerings but also the same quantities that are mentioned in verse 40. So Good News Translation has “and offer with it the same amounts of flour, olive oil, and wine as in the morning.” For a pleasing odor and an offering by fire to the LORD are the same expressions used in verse 18.

Verses 40 and 41 may be combined in the following way:

• With each lamb you must offer grain consisting of two pounds of your finest flour mixed with a quart of pure olive oil. You must also pour out a quart of wine as an offering. I will smell these offerings as they go up in smoke, and I will be pleased.

Quoted with permission from Osborn, Noel D. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on Exodus. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 1999. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .