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OET (OET-LV) And_in/on/at/with_blast your(ms)_both_nostrils they_were_piled_up [the]_waters they_stood_up like a_heap streams they_congealed the_deeps in/on/at/with_heart of_[the]_sea.
OET (OET-RV) It was your breath that made the waters pile up.
⇔ They stood up like a heap.
⇔ The deep water seemed like it was solid.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / personification
וּבְר֤וּחַ אַפֶּ֨יךָ֙
and,in/on/at/with,blast your(ms)=both_nostrils
Moses speaks of God as if God had a nose, and he speaks of the wind as if God blew the wind from his nose. Alternate translation: “You blew on the sea and”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
וּבְר֤וּחַ אַפֶּ֨יךָ֙ נֶ֣עֶרְמוּ מַ֔יִם נִצְּב֥וּ כְמוֹ־נֵ֖ד נֹזְלִ֑ים
and,in/on/at/with,blast your(ms)=both_nostrils piled_up waters stood_up like heap floods
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: “The blast from your nostrils piled the waters up and made the flowing waters stand upright in a heap”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism
נֶ֣עֶרְמוּ מַ֔יִם נִצְּב֥וּ כְמוֹ־נֵ֖ד נֹזְלִ֑ים קָֽפְא֥וּ תְהֹמֹ֖ת בְּלֶב־יָֽם
piled_up waters stood_up like heap floods congealed deeps in/on/at/with,heart sea
These lines are synonymous parallels where each line means basically the same thing, but each gives the reader a different poetic image.
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
בְּלֶב־יָֽם
in/on/at/with,heart sea
The center or deepest part of the sea is spoken of as if the sea had a heart. Alternate translation: “in the center of the sea”
15:8 blast (literally nostrils): In other contexts, the same word may be translated “anger.” The hot breath from God’s nose is an image of God’s anger.
• your breath: The Hebrew word translated as “breath” (ruakh) is the same one translated as “wind” in 14:21 and as “Spirit” in Gen 1:2. Nature is not God, but God is everywhere at work in nature.
OET (OET-LV) And_in/on/at/with_blast your(ms)_both_nostrils they_were_piled_up [the]_waters they_stood_up like a_heap streams they_congealed the_deeps in/on/at/with_heart of_[the]_sea.
OET (OET-RV) It was your breath that made the waters pile up.
⇔ They stood up like a heap.
⇔ The deep water seemed like it was solid.
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.