Also one male goat for a sin offering: See 28.15. One billy goat had to be sacrificed also on the Day of Atonement to purify the Israelites.

Besides the sin offering of atonement …: Besides may be rendered “in addition to” (Good News Translation, Revised English Bible). In many languages it will be natural to start a new sentence here; for example, Contemporary English Version begins with “You will offer these sacrifices in addition to…,” and Bible en français courant is similar with “All these sacrifices are in addition to…” (similarly New Living Translation). It is not immediately clear what the sin offering of atonement is, since it has not been referred to before in the book of Numbers. Rashi, the Jewish medieval commentator, noted that this sin offering refers to the sin offering on the Day of Atonement, which is mentioned in Exo 30.10 (so also Noth, pages 220, 223; Levine, pages 388-389) and Lev 16.9, 15 (so footnote in La Nouvelle Bible Segond). Traduction œcuménique de la Bible makes this explicit by translating this phrase as “the sin sacrifice of the day of the Great Pardon.” The expressions for sin offering and atonement should be the same as in 28.22 (see the comments there).

And the continual burnt offering and its cereal offering: See 28.3-5. These offerings were made in the morning and evening of each day. The pronoun its refers to the continual burnt offering.

And their drink offerings: As in verse 6 (see the comments there), New Jewish Publication Society’s Tanakh has “each with its libation,” which may be more natural in some languages. Here the pronoun their refers to the sin offering of atonement and the daily burnt offerings.

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 .