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OET (OET-LV) And_told to_king of_Miʦrayim DOM_that it_had_fled the_people and_changed the_heart of_Farˊoh and_officials_his to the_people and_said what this have_we_done (cmp) we_have_let_go DOM Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) from_serving_us.
OET (OET-RV) When the king of Egypt was told that the Israelis had fled, he and his servants started thinking about their own people and they asked, “What have we done by letting the Israeli slaves go free?”
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
וַיֻּגַּד֙ לְמֶ֣לֶךְ מִצְרַ֔יִם
and,told to,king Miʦrayim/(Egypt)
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: “Then someone told the king of Egypt”
בָרַ֖ח
fled
Alternate translation: “had run away”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
וַ֠יֵּהָפֵךְ לְבַ֨ב פַּרְעֹ֤ה וַעֲבָדָיו֙ אֶל־הָעָ֔ם
and,changed minds Farˊoh and,officials,his to/towards the,people
Here, heart refers to their attitudes toward the Israelites. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent expression or plain language. Alternate translation: “and Pharaoh and his servants changed their attitude about the people”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
וַ֠יֵּהָפֵךְ לְבַ֨ב פַּרְעֹ֤ה וַעֲבָדָיו֙ אֶל־הָעָ֔ם
and,changed minds Farˊoh and,officials,his to/towards the,people
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: “and Pharaoh and his servants turned their hearts to the people”
אֶל־הָעָ֔ם
to/towards the,people
Alternate translation: “against the Israelites”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion
מַה־זֹּ֣את עָשִׂ֔ינוּ כִּֽי־שִׁלַּ֥חְנוּ אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל מֵעָבְדֵֽנוּ
what? this done that/for/because/then/when let_~_go DOM Yisrael from,serving,us
They asked this question to show they thought they had done a foolish thing. If you would not use a rhetorical question for this purpose in your language, you could translate his words as a statement or an exclamation and communicate the emphasis in another way. Alternate translation: “We should not have let the Israelites go free from working for us!”
Note 5 topic: grammar-collectivenouns
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל
Yisrael
This is a collective singular noun. If your language would not refer to a group of people in this way, you may need to translate it as plural. Alternate translation: “the Israelites”
14:5-14 Because there was no real repentance on the part of Pharaoh and his officials, once the immediate terror of their experience had worn off, their self-interest reasserted itself and they determined to recapture their slave labor.
OET (OET-LV) And_told to_king of_Miʦrayim DOM_that it_had_fled the_people and_changed the_heart of_Farˊoh and_officials_his to the_people and_said what this have_we_done (cmp) we_have_let_go DOM Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) from_serving_us.
OET (OET-RV) When the king of Egypt was told that the Israelis had fled, he and his servants started thinking about their own people and they asked, “What have we done by letting the Israeli slaves go free?”
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.