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OET (OET-LV) Then having_neared, the commander took_hold of_him, and commanded him to_be_bound with_ two _chains, and he_was_inquiring who he_might_be and what he_is having_done.
OET (OET-RV) The commander came close and took hold of Paul and ordered that he be tied up with a pair of chains while he tried to find out who he was and what he’d done wrong.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
ἐκέλευσε δεθῆναι ἁλύσεσι δυσί
commanded_‹him› /to_be/_bound ˱with˲_chains two
These means implicitly that the commander ordered his soldiers to chain Paul to one soldier on each side of him. You can include this information if that would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: “commanded him to be chained to one soldier on each side of him”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
ἐκέλευσε δεθῆναι
commanded_‹him› /to_be/_bound
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. Alternate translation: “commanded his soldiers to bind him”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / quotations
ἐπυνθάνετο τίς εἴη καὶ τί ἐστιν πεποιηκώς
˱he˲_/was/_inquiring who ˱he˲_might_be and what ˱he˲_is /having/_done
It may be more natural in your language to have a direct quotation here. Alternate translation: “he was asking, ‘Who is this? What has he done?’”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
ἐπυνθάνετο
˱he˲_/was/_inquiring
Luke means implicitly that the commander was asking the people in the crowd these questions, not that he was asking them of Paul. You can include this information if that would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: “he was asking the people in the crowd”
21:26-36 The concerns of the Christian leaders (21:20-25) were evidently well based, for when their vows were almost completed, some Jews from the province of Asia raised a mob against Paul with false charges. They were intent on killing Paul, but the Roman commander rescued him.
OET (OET-LV) Then having_neared, the commander took_hold of_him, and commanded him to_be_bound with_ two _chains, and he_was_inquiring who he_might_be and what he_is having_done.
OET (OET-RV) The commander came close and took hold of Paul and ordered that he be tied up with a pair of chains while he tried to find out who he was and what he’d done wrong.
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.