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OET (OET-LV) And in the time to_be_going, it_became him to_be_nearing to_ the _Damaskos, and suddenly a_light from the sky.
flashed_around.
him.
OET (OET-RV) On his journey as he approached Damascus, suddenly light from the sky flashed around him.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
ἐν & τῷ πορεύεσθαι
in & the_‹time› /to_be/_going
Luke means implicitly that the high priest gave Saul the letters he asked for and that Saul then left Jerusalem to go to Damascus. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could state that explicitly. Alternate translation: “as he was traveling to Damascus with letters that the high priest gave him”
Note 2 topic: writing-newevent
ἐγένετο
˱it˲_became
Luke uses the phrase it happened that to introduce a significant development in this story. Use a word, phrase, or other method in your language that is natural for this purpose.
αὐτὸν περιήστραψεν φῶς ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ
him him flashed_around /a/_light from the sky
Alternate translation: “a light from heaven shone all around him”
ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ
from the sky
This could mean: (1) heaven, where God lives or (2) the sky. The first meaning is preferable. Use that meaning if your language has a separate word for it.
9:1-19 The conversion of Saul of Tarsus on the Damascus road is of central importance to the narrative of Acts—Luke recounts the story three times (also 22:1-21; 26:1-29). Paul (Saul) also alludes to this experience several times in his letters (1 Cor 15:8-10; Gal 1:11-17; Phil 3:4-11; see 1 Tim 1:12-17). Saul’s conversion was his prophetic call and commission as an apostle (Acts 9:15; 22:15, 21; 26:15-18). No one is beyond the power of God to reach, redeem, and use for holy purposes—nothing is impossible with God (Luke 1:37). Paul was prepared through his training, upbringing, and experience to play a unique role in taking the gospel into the broader world as the “apostle to the Gentiles” (Rom 11:13; see 1 Cor 15:9; 2 Cor 12:11-12; Gal 1:1; Eph 3:8).
OET (OET-LV) And in the time to_be_going, it_became him to_be_nearing to_ the _Damaskos, and suddenly a_light from the sky.
flashed_around.
him.
OET (OET-RV) On his journey as he approached Damascus, suddenly light from the sky flashed around him.
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.