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OET (OET-LV) and having_come to us, and having_taken_up the belt of_ the _Paulos, having_bound of_himself the feet and the hands, he_said:
The the holy spirit is_saying these things:
The man of_whom is the this belt, thus the Youdaiōns in Hierousalaʸm will_be_binding, and they_will_be_giving_over him into the_hands of_the_pagans.
OET (OET-RV) and when he arrived, he picked up Paul’s belt and tied it around his own feet and hands, telling them that the holy spirit had told him that this is how the owner of the belt would be treated by the Jewish leaders in Yerusalem before they would then hand him over to the non-Jews to be dealt with.
Note 1 topic: translate-symaction
ἄρας τὴν ζώνην τοῦ Παύλου, δήσας ἑαυτοῦ τοὺς πόδας καὶ τὰς χεῖρας
/having/_taken_up the belt ¬the ˱of˲_Paul /having/_bound ˱of˲_himself the feet and the hands
Agabus bound his own feet and hands with Paul’s belt as a symbolic action to illustrate the prophecy he was delivering. If this would not be clear to your readers, you could explain the significance of this action. Alternate translation: “having taken the belt of Paul and bound his own feet and hands to illustrate the prophecy he was delivering”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / quotesinquotes
τάδε λέγει τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ Ἅγιον, τὸν ἄνδρα οὗ ἐστιν ἡ ζώνη αὕτη, οὕτως δήσουσιν ἐν Ἰερουσαλὴμ οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι, καὶ παραδώσουσιν εἰς χεῖρας ἐθνῶν
these_‹things› /is/_saying the Spirit ¬the Holy the man ˱of˲_whom is ¬the belt this thus /will_be/_binding in Jerusalem the Jews and ˱they˲_/will_be/_giving_over_‹him› into /the/_hands ˱of˲_/the/_pagans
If it would be clearer in your language, you could translate this so that there is not a quotation within a quotation. Alternate translation: “The Holy Spirit says that in this way the Jews in Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and that they will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche
οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι
the Jews
Agabus is using the name of a whole group, the Jews, to refer to one part of that group, its leaders. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state that plainly. Alternate translation: “the leaders of the Jews”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
εἰς χεῖρας ἐθνῶν
into /the/_hands ˱of˲_/the/_pagans
Here, hands represents the power of someone, in this case the power of an authority to hold an accused person in custody. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent expression from your language or state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “into the custody of the Gentiles”
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche
ἐθνῶν
˱of˲_/the/_pagans
Agabus is using the name of a whole group, the Gentiles, to refer to one part of that group, its members who are in authority. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state that plainly. Alternate translation: “of the Gentile authorities”
21:1-18 This “we” passage (see study notes on 16:10; 20:5-15) covers Paul’s journey from Miletus to Jerusalem at the close of the third missionary journey.
OET (OET-LV) and having_come to us, and having_taken_up the belt of_ the _Paulos, having_bound of_himself the feet and the hands, he_said:
The the holy spirit is_saying these things:
The man of_whom is the this belt, thus the Youdaiōns in Hierousalaʸm will_be_binding, and they_will_be_giving_over him into the_hands of_the_pagans.
OET (OET-RV) and when he arrived, he picked up Paul’s belt and tied it around his own feet and hands, telling them that the holy spirit had told him that this is how the owner of the belt would be treated by the Jewish leaders in Yerusalem before they would then hand him over to the non-Jews to be dealt with.
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 VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.