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OET (OET-LV) And passing_by, he_saw Leui/(Lēvī) the son of_ the _Alfaios sitting at the tax_office, and is_saying to_him:
Be_following after_me.
And having_risen_up, he_followed after_him.
OET (OET-RV) And as he was passing by the tax office, he saw Levi Alphaeus sitting there and said to him, “Come along with me.” So Levi stood up and followed Yeshua.
Note 1 topic: writing-participants
εἶδεν Λευεὶν τὸν τοῦ Ἁλφαίου, καθήμενον ἐπὶ τὸ τελώνιον
˱he˲_saw (Some words not found in SR-GNT: καὶ παράγων εἶδεν Λευὶν τὸν τοῦ Ἁλφαίου καθήμενον ἐπὶ τὸ τελώνιον καὶ λέγει αὐτῷ ἀκολούθει μοι καὶ ἀναστὰς ἠκολούθησεν αὐτῷ)
Here Mark introduces a tax collector named Levi as a new character in the story. Use a natural form in your language for introducing a new character. Alternate translation: “he saw a man who was called Levi, the son of Alphaeus. Levi was sitting at the tax collector’s office”
Note 2 topic: translate-names
Ἁλφαίου
˱of˲_Alpheus
The word Alphaeus is the name of a man.
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
καθήμενον ἐπὶ τὸ τελώνιον
sitting at the tax_office
Here Mark means that Levi worked as a tax collector. He would sit at the tax collector’s office and make sure that people paid their taxes to the Roman empire, who had control over this area. If it would be helpful in your language, you could make this idea more explicit. Alternate translation: “who worked to collect taxes for the Romans at the tax collection office”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
ἀκολούθει μοι & ἠκολούθησεν αὐτῷ
/be/_following ˱after˲_me & ˱he˲_followed ˱after˲_him
Here, the phrase Follow me is a command to travel with Jesus and be his disciple. Similarly, the phrase he followed him indicates that Levi did travel with Jesus and become his disciple. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a comparable phrase or state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “Be my disciple … he was his disciple” or “Come with me as my student … he went with him as his student”
2:13-17 This controversy centers on Jesus’ befriending disreputable sinners such as tax collectors and eating with them.
OET (OET-LV) And passing_by, he_saw Leui/(Lēvī) the son of_ the _Alfaios sitting at the tax_office, and is_saying to_him:
Be_following after_me.
And having_risen_up, he_followed after_him.
OET (OET-RV) And as he was passing by the tax office, he saw Levi Alphaeus sitting there and said to him, “Come along with me.” So Levi stood up and followed Yeshua.
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.