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OET (OET-LV) And some having_come_down from the Youdaia, were_teaching the brothers, that If you_all _may_ not _be_circumcised to_the custom which of_Mōsaʸs/(Mosheh), you_all_are_ not _being_able to_be_saved.
OET (OET-RV) Then some people came to Antioch from Yudea and were teaching the believers that according to Mosheh’ teachings, you can’t be saved unless you’ve been circumcised.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
τινες
some
Luke assumes that his readers will recognize that these were Jews who believed in Jesus. You can include this information if your readers will need it to understand this sentence. Alternate translation: “certain Jews who believed in Jesus”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
κατελθόντες ἀπὸ τῆς Ἰουδαίας
/having/_come_down from ¬the Judea
Luke speaks of these Jews coming down to Antioch because that city is lower in elevation than Judea. Alternate translation: “who had traveled”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
ἐδίδασκον τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς
/were/_teaching the brothers
Luke is using the term brothers to mean people who share the same faith. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “were teaching the believers”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
ἐὰν μὴ περιτμηθῆτε
if not ˱you_all˲_/may_be/_circumcised
If your language does not use this passive form, you could state this in active form. Alternate translation: “Unless someone circumcises you”
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
οὐ δύνασθε σωθῆναι
not ˱you_all˲_/are/_being_able /to_be/_saved
If your language does not use this passive form, you could express the idea in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. If you need to say who would do the action, it is clear from the context that it would be God. Alternate translation, as in UST: “God will not save you”
15:1 These men from Judea were Jewish Christians who taught the necessity of circumcision (and with it, conversion to Judaism) in order to be saved. The central issue was how Gentiles were to be received into Christian fellowship. Paul wrote his letter to the Galatians about this time to counter the same teaching in Galatia (see Galatians Book Introduction, “Date of Writing”).
OET (OET-LV) And some having_come_down from the Youdaia, were_teaching the brothers, that If you_all _may_ not _be_circumcised to_the custom which of_Mōsaʸs/(Mosheh), you_all_are_ not _being_able to_be_saved.
OET (OET-RV) Then some people came to Antioch from Yudea and were teaching the believers that according to Mosheh’ teachings, you can’t be saved unless you’ve been circumcised.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.