InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
InterlinearVerse 1 Chr C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C24 C25 C26 C27 C28 C29
1 Chr 23 V1 V2 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22 V23 V24 V25 V26 V27 V28 V29 V30 V31 V32
OET-LV And_ the_Lēviyyiy _they_were_counted from_a_son_of thirty year[s] and_upwards and_he/it_was number_of_their to_heads_of_their to_men thirty and_eight thousand.
OET (OET-RV) Counting the Levite males that were thirty years old and older, they found there were thirty-eight thousand men.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
(Occurrence 0) The Levites who were thirty years old and older were counted
(Some words not found in UHB: and,they_were_counted the,Levites from,a_son_of thirty year and,upwards, and=he/it_was number_of,their to,heads_of,their to,men thirty and,eight thousand )
If your language does not use the passive form in this way, you can state this in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. Alternate translation: [Some of David’s men counted the Levites who were 30 years old and older]
Note 2 topic: translate-numbers
(Occurrence 0) They numbered thirty-eight thousand
(Some words not found in UHB: and,they_were_counted the,Levites from,a_son_of thirty year and,upwards, and=he/it_was number_of,their to,heads_of,their to,men thirty and,eight thousand )
“There were 38,000 of them”
OET-LV And_ the_Lēviyyiy _they_were_counted from_a_son_of thirty year[s] and_upwards and_he/it_was number_of_their to_heads_of_their to_men thirty and_eight thousand.
OET (OET-RV) Counting the Levite males that were thirty years old and older, they found there were thirty-eight thousand men.
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 Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.
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