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OET (OET-LV) And of_them eating, the Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) having_taken bread and having_blessed, he_broke it and having_given to_the apprentices/followers said:
Take, eat, this is the body of_me.
OET (OET-RV) Then during the meal, Yeshua took some bread and blessed it, then he broke it into pieces and gave it to his apprentices, saying, “Take this and eat it—it’s my body.”
Note 1 topic: writing-newevent
δὲ
and
Here, the word Now introduces the next major event in the story. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a word or phrase that introduces the next event, or you could leave Now untranslated. Alternate translation: “After that,” or “Later on,”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
εὐλογήσας
/having/_blessed
Here Matthew could be implying that Jesus blessed: (1) God for providing the food. Alternate translation: “having blessed God” or “having praised God” (2) the food. Alternate translation: “having blessed it” or “having asked God to make it holy”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
ἔκλασεν
˱he˲_broke_‹it›
Here Matthew means that Jesus broke the bread in pieces so that it could be served to the disciples. This was a normal practice in his culture. If it would be helpful in your language, you could make that idea more explicit. Alternate translation: “divided the bread into servings” or “broke the bread into smaller pieces”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis
λάβετε, φάγετε
take eat
Here Jesus implies that he wants the disciples to Take and eat the pieces of bread that he gave to them. If it would be helpful in your language, you could make that idea more explicit. Alternate translation: “Take these pieces of bread and eat them”
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
τοῦτό ἐστιν τὸ σῶμά μου
this is the body ˱of˲_me
Here Jesus identifies the bread as his body. This figure of speech has been interpreted in a number of ways. The bread could somehow become Jesus’ body, or Jesus’ body could be present in some way when people eat the bread, or the bread could represent or memorialize Jesus’ body. Because of the variety of interpretations and the significance of this metaphor, you should preserve the metaphor if there is any way to do so. If you must express the metaphor in a different way, use a form that could fit with as many of the listed interpretations as possible. Alternate translation: “This functions as my body”
26:26 The unleavened bread of the Passover (Exod 12:18) is also described as the “bread of suffering” (Deut 16:3), referring to hardships in Egypt.
• The customary blessing over the bread in the Passover meal was “Blessed are you, O Lord our God, King of the universe, who brings forth bread from the earth.”
OET (OET-LV) And of_them eating, the Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) having_taken bread and having_blessed, he_broke it and having_given to_the apprentices/followers said:
Take, eat, this is the body of_me.
OET (OET-RV) Then during the meal, Yeshua took some bread and blessed it, then he broke it into pieces and gave it to his apprentices, saying, “Take this and eat it—it’s my body.”
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.