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OET (OET-LV) And having_called_to some two of_the centurions, he_said:
Prepare two_hundred soldiers, so_that may_be_gone as_far_as Kaisareia, and seventy horsemen, and two_hundred spearmen for the_third hour of_the night.
OET (OET-RV) Then the commander called in two of his centurions and ordered them to prepare two-hundred soldiers to travel as far as Caesarea, supported by seventy mounted soldiers and two-hundred more with spears. They were to be ready to leave by 9pm,
Note 1 topic: translate-numbers
δεξιολάβους διακοσίους
spearmen two_hundred
Alternate translation: “200 soldiers who are armed with spears”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
τρίτης ὥρας τῆς νυκτός
/the/_third hour ˱of˲_the night
In your translation, you may wish to express this in the way your own culture reckons time. Alternate translation: “nine o’clock this evening”
23:23-35 A mounted escort took Paul safely to the Roman Governor Felix in Caesarea, the Roman headquarters for Judea. There Paul would have greater protection than in Jerusalem. The military operation was executed that night with secret efficiency and maximum security (23:31).
OET (OET-LV) And having_called_to some two of_the centurions, he_said:
Prepare two_hundred soldiers, so_that may_be_gone as_far_as Kaisareia, and seventy horsemen, and two_hundred spearmen for the_third hour of_the night.
OET (OET-RV) Then the commander called in two of his centurions and ordered them to prepare two-hundred soldiers to travel as far as Caesarea, supported by seventy mounted soldiers and two-hundred more with spears. They were to be ready to leave by 9pm,
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.