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OET (OET-LV) and_on_day_of twenty and_four of_month (the)_first and_I I_was on the_side_of the_river (the)_great it is_the_Tigris.
OET (OET-RV) Then on that day in late April, I was standing on the bank of the great river, i.e., the Tigris.
In this long final vision, Daniel was told of events leading up to the end of the age.
Daniel wrote that he saw a vision of an awe-inspiring man dressed in linen.
On the twenty-fourth day of the first month,
¶ On the twenty-fourth day of the first month of the year,
¶ On day 24 of the month that begins the year/spring,
¶ It was on the twenty-fourth day of the first month of the year that I saw the vision.
On the twenty-fourth day of the first month: This phrase gives a date in accordance with the Hebrew calendar. The first month of the year was a spring month, approximately March or April. Here is another way to translate this:
On the twenty-fourth day of the first month of the year (GNT)
as I was standing on the bank of the great river, the Tigris,
I was standing beside the great Tigris River.
I went and stood by the great river, the river called the Tigris.
At that time I was standing beside the mighty River Tigris.
as I was standing on the bank of the great river, the Tigris: The Hebrew text describes Daniel as standing beside the Tigris River. In some languages it may be natural to translate this as an independent clause. For example:
I was beside the great river, the Tigris (NET)
I was by the great Tigris River (GW)
I was standing on the bank of the mighty Tigris River (GNT)
Note 1 topic: translate-ordinal
וּבְי֛וֹם עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וְאַרְבָּעָ֖ה לַחֹ֣דֶשׁ הָרִאשׁ֑וֹן
and,on,day_of twenty and,four of,month (the),first
Daniel is using the cardinal number twenty and four where your language may use an ordinal number. If your language would not represent a number in a form such as twenty and four, you could represent this number in a form that your language would use. Alternate translation: [And on the twenty-fourth day of the first month]
Note 2 topic: translate-hebrewmonths
לַחֹ֣דֶשׁ הָרִאשׁ֑וֹן
of,month (the),first
The first month of the Hebrew calendar includes the last part of March and the first part of April on Western calendars. You could convert the Hebrew day and month into an approximate date on the calendar that your culture uses. However, the Jews used a lunar calendar, so if you use a solar calendar, the date will be different every year, and the translation will not be entirely accurate. So you may just want to give the number of the day and the name of the month on the Hebrew calendar and say in a footnote approximately what time of year that is on your calendar.
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
עַ֣ל יַ֧ד הַנָּהָ֛ר הַגָּד֖וֹל
on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in bank_of the=river (the),great
Daniel is using at the hand of the great river as a common expression of the culture to mean “on the bank of the great river.” If this phrase does not have that meaning for your readers, you could use a comparable expression from your language that does have that meaning, or you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [beside the great river]
Note 4 topic: translate-names
חִדָּֽקֶל
Tigris
The word Tigris is the name of a river.
OET (OET-LV) and_on_day_of twenty and_four of_month (the)_first and_I I_was on the_side_of the_river (the)_great it is_the_Tigris.
OET (OET-RV) Then on that day in late April, I was standing on the bank of the great river, i.e., the Tigris.
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.