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OET (OET-LV) And_he_was_pleasing the_advice in/on_both_eyes_of the_king and_the_officials and_he/it_made the_king as_proposed_of Memucan.
OET (OET-RV) This seemed like a good idea to the king and his officials, so King Ahasuerus followed the advice of Memukan
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
וַיִּיטַב֙ הַדָּבָ֔ר בְּעֵינֵ֥י הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ
and,he_was_pleasing the,advice in/on=both_eyes_of the=king
Like “if it is good to the king” in verse 19, this is an idiom that means the king thought this was a good idea or this advice pleased the king.
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
בְּעֵינֵ֥י הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ וְהַשָּׂרִ֑ים
in/on=both_eyes_of the=king and,the,officials
Here, eyes stand for seeing, and seeing is a metaphor for knowledge, notice, attention, or judgment. The phrase means that King Ahasuerus and all the officials who heard Memukan’s advice thought that his suggestion was a good idea.
וַיַּ֥עַשׂ הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ כִּדְבַ֥ר מְמוּכָֽן
and=he/it_made the=king as,proposed_of Memucan
This means that King Ahasuerus wrote a law proclaiming what Memukan had suggested.
Note 3 topic: translate-names
מְמוּכָֽן
Memucan
Translate his name as in [1:14](../01/14.md).
OET (OET-LV) And_he_was_pleasing the_advice in/on_both_eyes_of the_king and_the_officials and_he/it_made the_king as_proposed_of Memucan.
OET (OET-RV) This seemed like a good idea to the king and his officials, so King Ahasuerus followed the advice of Memukan
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.