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OET (OET-LV) And_said the_midwives to Farˊoh if/because not like_the_women the_from_Miʦrayim/(Miʦrayim) the_Hebrew if/because [are]_vigorous they in/on/at/with_before she_comes to_them the_midwife and_give_birth.
OET (OET-RV) “Because the Hebrew women aren’t like Egyptian women,” the midwives answered. “They’re more active and give birth before the midwife even gets to them.”
Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result
כִּ֣י לֹ֧א כַנָּשִׁ֛ים הַמִּצְרִיֹּ֖ת הָֽעִבְרִיֹּ֑ת כִּֽי־חָי֣וֹת הֵ֔נָּה בְּטֶ֨רֶם תָּב֧וֹא אֲלֵהֶ֛ן הַמְיַלֶּ֖דֶת וְיָלָֽדוּ
that/for/because/then/when not like_the,women the,Egyptian the,Hebrew that/for/because/then/when vigorous they(f) in/on/at/with,before comes to,them the,midwife and,give_birth
The midwives give a reason, the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, and then they expand on that reason, for they are lively (or energetic), with the result that before the midwife comes to them, they have given birth.
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche
וַתֹּאמַ֤רְןָ הַֽמְיַלְּדֹת֙
and,said the,midwives
Here, midwives said means that a midwife spoke representing the thoughts of the group. It may not make sense in your language to say that multiple people said something, so you may need to translate it in the singular (See: UST).
הַֽמְיַלְּדֹת֙
the,midwives
These were women who helped a woman give birth to a baby. See how you translated this in Exodus 1:15.
1:19 It might trouble us that the midwives were not candid in giving their main reason for keeping the boy babies alive. Comprehensive honesty is less important to God than absolute faithfulness to him and to his believing community.
OET (OET-LV) And_said the_midwives to Farˊoh if/because not like_the_women the_from_Miʦrayim/(Miʦrayim) the_Hebrew if/because [are]_vigorous they in/on/at/with_before she_comes to_them the_midwife and_give_birth.
OET (OET-RV) “Because the Hebrew women aren’t like Egyptian women,” the midwives answered. “They’re more active and give birth before the midwife even gets to them.”
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.