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OET (OET-RV) So God rewarded the midwives, and meanwhile, the people continued to increase in number and become more powerful,
לַֽמְיַלְּדֹ֑ת
to_the,midwives
These were women who helped a woman give birth to a baby. See how you translated this in Exodus 1:15.
Note 1 topic: writing-background
וַיִּ֧רֶב הָעָ֛ם וַיַּֽעַצְמ֖וּ מְאֹֽד
and,multiplied the,people and,numerous very
This sentence gives background information about the events at the time. Use the natural form in your language for expressing background information.
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / doublet
וַיִּ֧רֶב & וַיַּֽעַצְמ֖וּ מְאֹֽד
and,multiplied & and,numerous very
These words mean similar things and are used together to emphasize their numeric growth. If your language doesn’t have as many words that mean the same thing, you can use fewer words and express the emphasis in another way.
Note 3 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result
וַיֵּ֥יטֶב אֱלֹהִ֖ים לַֽמְיַלְּדֹ֑ת
and,dealt_well ʼElhīmv to_the,midwives
This phrase is more logically connected to the statements in verse 21. It describes the result of the midwives fearing God with a general statement. If it would be more natural in your language, you could rearrange verses 20–21 so that the reason (verses 21) comes before both the general and specific results.
1:1-22 The need for deliverance was obviously related to the Israelites’ condition (the Egyptians worked the people of Israel without mercy, 1:13); it also was related to promises God had made to the patriarchs years earlier. The Lord had promised Abraham that his descendants would be a great nation, living in freedom in the land of Canaan. At this point, Abraham’s descendants were slaves in Egypt under a pharaoh determined to decimate them as a people. God would have to rescue the people if his promises were to be kept.
OET (OET-RV) So God rewarded the midwives, and meanwhile, the people continued to increase in number and become more powerful,
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.