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OET (OET-LV) And_he/it_said to people_his here the_people of_the_people of_Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) [is]_numerous and_powerful than_we.
OET (OET-RV) and he told his people, “Listen, those descendants of Israel are becoming more numerous and powerful than us.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / exclamations
הִנֵּ֗ה
see/lo/see!
Behold draws special attention to what is about to be said. Use a way of drawing people’s attention that is natural in your language. Alternate translation: “Listen”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / possession
עַמּ֑וֹ
people,his
The people whom the king rules over and who are also part of his group (probably shared ethnicity, tribe, or clan) rather than the Israelite group are spoken of as if they belonged to the king. This is an instance of the possessive of social relationship.
עַמּ֑וֹ
people,his
There is some ambiguity as to whom exactly Pharaoh was addressing. It could have been: (1) the people who lived in Egypt, the Egyptians or (2) some group of “his people” like his advisors, generals, nobles, or friends and family. Even if option 1 is meant, it is quite possible that he actually spoke to some smaller group of representatives, as in option 2.
מִמֶּֽנּוּ
than,we
Use a way that is natural in your language to compare non-specific sizes of groups of people. Alternate translation: “and much greater than us”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / quotemarks
הִנֵּ֗ה
see/lo/see!
Beginning from behold and extending to the end of 1:10 is a direct quotation of what the king said. It may be helpful to your readers to indicate this with an opening first-level quotation mark or with whatever other punctuation or convention your language uses to indicate the beginning of a quotation. There may be other quotations in this chapter; they will be marked by the same punctuation, but they will not have their own notes.
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-LV) And_he/it_said to people_his here the_people of_the_people of_Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) [is]_numerous and_powerful than_we.
OET (OET-RV) and he told his people, “Listen, those descendants of Israel are becoming more numerous and powerful than us.
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.