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OET (OET-LV) And it_became a_period about three hours, and the wife of_him, not having_known the thing having_become, came_in.
OET (OET-RV) Three hours later, Ananias’ wife came in, not knowing anything about what had happened.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
ἐγένετο δὲ ὡς ὡρῶν τριῶν διάστημα, καὶ
˱it˲_became and about hours three /a/_period and
This is an idiomatic way of speaking about time passing. Your language may have its own way of describing that. Alternate translation: “After about three hours had gone by,”
Note 2 topic: writing-pronouns
ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ
the wife ˱of˲_him
The pronoun his refers to Ananias. Alternate translation: “the wife of Ananias” or “Sapphira”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
τὸ γεγονὸς
the_‹thing› /having/_become
If it would be helpful to your readers, you could state explicitly what this means. Alternate translation: “that Peter had exposed their lie and that her husband was dead”
5:1-11 Luke is fond of balancing a positive example with a negative example. He has just recorded the remarkable story of Barnabas (4:36-37). Now Luke presents the opposite conduct of Ananias and Sapphira, who were tempted by the desire to be held in high regard. Ananias had not been forced to sell his property or to give the proceeds away. The couple’s sin was in their pretense and deception.
OET (OET-LV) And it_became a_period about three hours, and the wife of_him, not having_known the thing having_become, came_in.
OET (OET-RV) Three hours later, Ananias’ wife came in, not knowing anything about what had happened.
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.