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Est 5 V1 V2 V3 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14
OET-LV And_ ʼEştēr _she/it_said if is_on the_king good the_king and_Haman let_him_come the_day to the_feast which I_have_made to_him/it.
OET (OET-RV) “If it pleases your majesty,” Ester replied, “please come with Haman today to the banquet that I’ve prepared for you.”
After Esther had finished fasting, she went to the inner rooms of the palace. The king was pleased to see her and promised to grant any request she might make. So she asked that the king and Haman should come and eat a special meal that she would get her servants to prepare for them. The king agreed.
“If it pleases the king,” Esther replied,
Esther replied, “Your Majesty, if you agree,
If it pleases the king: See note on 1:19a. Here you need to decide if Esther as queen should address Xerxes differently than the male servants did.
“may the king and Haman come today to the banquet I have prepared for the king.”
please come to me today. I have caused a feast to be prepared for you. Bring Haman with you.”
the banquet I have prepared for the king: Because Esther is referring to the king in the third person, “him” refers to the king, not Haman. It is unlikely that Esther cooked the food for the banquet herself, but rather that she ordered her servants to do so. You may need to state this explicitly in your translation.
banquet: See note on 1:9.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
אִם־עַל־הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ ט֑וֹב
if on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in (Some words not found in UHB: and=she/it_said ʼEştēr if on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in the=king good come the=king and,Haman the=day to/towards the,feast which/who prepared to=him/it )
This is an idiom. See how you translated it in 1:19 and 3:9. Alternate translation: [If it seems like a good idea to you, O king]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / 123person
אִם־עַל־הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ ט֑וֹב
if on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in (Some words not found in UHB: and=she/it_said ʼEştēr if on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in the=king good come the=king and,Haman the=day to/towards the,feast which/who prepared to=him/it )
Esther speaks to the king in the third person as a sign of respect. Alternate translation: [If it seems like a good idea to you, O king]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / 123person
יָב֨וֹא הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ וְהָמָן֙
come (Some words not found in UHB: and=she/it_said ʼEştēr if on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in the=king good come the=king and,Haman the=day to/towards the,feast which/who prepared to=him/it )
Esther speaks to the king in the third person as a sign of respect. Alternate translation: [O king, please come with Haman] or [you and Haman come]
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / 123person
הַמִּשְׁתֶּ֖ה אֲשֶׁר־עָשִׂ֥יתִי לֽוֹ
(Some words not found in UHB: and=she/it_said ʼEştēr if on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in the=king good come the=king and,Haman the=day to/towards the,feast which/who prepared to=him/it )
Esther speaks to the king in the third person as a sign of respect. Here, him refers to the king, not to Haman. Alternate translation: [the banquet that I have prepared for you]
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / yousingular
הַמִּשְׁתֶּ֖ה אֲשֶׁר־עָשִׂ֥יתִי לֽוֹ
(Some words not found in UHB: and=she/it_said ʼEştēr if on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in the=king good come the=king and,Haman the=day to/towards the,feast which/who prepared to=him/it )
If you decide to translate this as “the banquet that I have prepared for you,” then the word “you” should be singular, since here it refers just to the king.
OET-LV And_ ʼEştēr _she/it_said if is_on the_king good the_king and_Haman let_him_come the_day to the_feast which I_have_made to_him/it.
OET (OET-RV) “If it pleases your majesty,” Ester replied, “please come with Haman today to the banquet that I’ve prepared for you.”
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.