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OET (OET-LV) Therefore when he_said to_them:
I am he, they_went_away back to the things and they_fell on_the_ground.
OET (OET-RV) But when Yeshua had said that he is the one, they backed away and fell to the ground.[fn]
18:6 TD: It’s not clear from the original if they fell over backwards, or if they stepped back and then fell forward (either voluntarily or involuntarily) onto their knees.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis
ἐγώ εἰμι
I am_‹he›
See how you translated I am in the previous verse.
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
ἔπεσαν χαμαί
˱they˲_fell on_the_ground
Here John implies that the men fell to the ground involuntarily because of Jesus’ power. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could state this explicitly. Alternate translation: “fell to the ground because of Jesus’ power”
18:6 The soldiers and guards all drew back before the Lord (cp. Isa 6:5; Ezek 1:28; Dan 10:9; Acts 9:4; Rev 1:17). Even Roman soldiers, who were trained not to fall, fell to the ground before Christ. Although they took this posture of submission, they didn’t really understand what had occurred and proceeded with the arrest.
OET (OET-LV) Therefore when he_said to_them:
I am he, they_went_away back to the things and they_fell on_the_ground.
OET (OET-RV) But when Yeshua had said that he is the one, they backed away and fell to the ground.[fn]
18:6 TD: It’s not clear from the original if they fell over backwards, or if they stepped back and then fell forward (either voluntarily or involuntarily) onto their knees.
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.