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OET (OET-LV) And as they_were looking_intently into the sky, him going, also see two men in white clothing, had_stood_by to_them,
OET (OET-RV) As they stood there staring into the sky after he’d gone, suddenly two men in white clothes were standing beside them
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
ἀτενίζοντες ἦσαν εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν
looking_intently ˱they˲_were into the sky
Since a cloud was able to block the apostles’ view, it is clear that Luke is using the word translated heaven here in one of its specific senses to mean “sky.” It would be good to make clear that the apostles were not seeing into heaven itself. Alternate translation: “gazing at the sky”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
καὶ ἰδοὺ ἄνδρες δύο
and also behold men two
Luke is using the term behold to focus readers’ attention on how suddenly these two men appeared. Your language may have a comparable expression that you can use in your translation. Alternate translation: “just then two men”
Note 3 topic: grammar-connect-time-sequential
καὶ
and
Luke uses the word translated And to indicate that the event of the men appearing happened after the event of Jesus going up. Alternate translation: “Then”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
ἄνδρες δύο
men two
These were actually angels. Luke calls them men because they appeared in human form. Alternate translation: “two angels”
ἐσθήσεσι λευκαῖς
clothing white
In this context, the word white likely has the specific sense of “bright” or “shining.” Alternate translation: “bright clothes” or “shining clothes”
1:10 Christ’s rising into heaven indicates his elevation to a place of ultimate authority (see Eph 1:19-23; Phil 2:9-11).
OET (OET-LV) And as they_were looking_intently into the sky, him going, also see two men in white clothing, had_stood_by to_them,
OET (OET-RV) As they stood there staring into the sky after he’d gone, suddenly two men in white clothes were standing beside them
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.