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OET (OET-LV) And in the these days multiplying the apprentices/followers, became a_grumbling of_the Hellaʸnistaʸs against the Hebraios, because the widows of_them were_being_overlooked in the the daily service.
OET (OET-RV) However around that time when the number of Yeshua-followers were growing, some of the Greek converts starting grumbling about the Jewish believers because the Greek widows were being overlooked in the daily sharing of food and money.
Note 1 topic: writing-newevent
ἐν δὲ ταῖς ἡμέραις ταύταις
in and ¬the days these
Luke uses this time reference to introduce a new event in the story. Use a word, phrase, or other method in your language that is natural for introducing a new event.
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
ἐν & ταῖς ἡμέραις ταύταις
in & ¬the days these
Luke is using the term days to refer to a specific time. Alternate translation: “at that same time”
Note 3 topic: translate-names
τῶν Ἑλληνιστῶν
the ˱of˲_the Hellenists
Hellenists was the name for Jews in the Roman Empire who spoke the Greek language and followed Greek customs.
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
παρεθεωροῦντο ἐν τῇ διακονίᾳ τῇ καθημερινῇ αἱ χῆραι αὐτῶν
/were_being/_overlooked in the service ¬the daily the widows ˱of˲_them
If it would be helpful in your language, you could state this with an active form, and you can say who was doing the action. Alternate translation: “those who were distributing food each day were overlooking their widows”
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
ἐν τῇ διακονίᾳ τῇ καθημερινῇ
in in the service ¬the daily
If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea behind the word service, you could express the same idea with an equivalent expression. Alternate translations: “by those who were distributing food each day”
6:1 The Greek-speaking believers were Jewish Christians who had lived elsewhere in the Greco-Roman world and probably observed some Greek customs. The Hebrew-speaking believers were more traditional Jews, native to Palestine, who spoke Hebrew or Aramaic and refrained from Greek customs.
• their widows were being discriminated against: This injustice threatened the growth and development of the church with rumblings of discontent and had to be addressed.
OET (OET-LV) And in the these days multiplying the apprentices/followers, became a_grumbling of_the Hellaʸnistaʸs against the Hebraios, because the widows of_them were_being_overlooked in the the daily service.
OET (OET-RV) However around that time when the number of Yeshua-followers were growing, some of the Greek converts starting grumbling about the Jewish believers because the Greek widows were being overlooked in the daily sharing of food and money.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and English gloss (7th line) are all thanks to the SR-GNT.