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OET (OET-LV) only Yōnātān/(Jonathan) the_son_of ˊAsāhʼēl and_Jahzeiah the_son_of Tiqvāh they_stood on this and_Məshullām and_Shabtay the_Lēviyyiy supported_them.
Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-exceptions
אַ֣ךְ
only
The word only indicates that the sentence it introduces makes an exception from the larger group that was mentioned before. In 10:12 it appeared that the whole group was in agreement, but now we find out that there were four men who did not agree. Use a natural way to indicate this contrast that makes it clear that there were two men who opposed the idea, then two more joined them in opposing the idea. Alternate translation: “But a few, namely,”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
יוֹנָתָ֧ן & וְיַחְזְיָ֥ה & עָמְד֣וּ עַל־זֹ֑את וּמְשֻׁלָּ֛ם וְשַׁבְּתַ֥י & עֲזָרֻֽם
Yōnātān/(Jonathan) & and,Jahzeiah & stood on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in this(f) and,Meshullam and,Shabbethai & supported,them
The implication is that while these four men spoke up in the assembly against investigating who among the Israelites had married foreign wives, their protests were unsuccessful. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could say that explicitly. Alternate translation: “Jonathan … and Jahzeiah … did not want the community to investigate who had married foreign women. And Meshullam and Shabbethai … supported them, but they were not able to convince the assembly” Alternatively, you could express this idea at the beginning of verse 16.
Note 3 topic: translate-names
יוֹנָתָ֧ן בֶּן־עֲשָׂהאֵ֛ל
Yōnātān/(Jonathan) son_of ˊAsāh\sup_ʼēl
Jonathan is the name of a man, and Asahel is the name of his father.
Note 4 topic: translate-names
וְיַחְזְיָ֥ה בֶן־תִּקְוָ֖ה
and,Jahzeiah son_of Tiqvāh
Jahzeiah is the name of a man, and Tikvah is the name of his father.
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
עָמְד֣וּ עַל־זֹ֑את
stood on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in this(f)
Here, stood against something means to have opposed it. Alternate translation: “did not want the community to investigate who had married foreign women”
Note 6 topic: translate-names
וּמְשֻׁלָּ֛ם וְשַׁבְּתַ֥י
and,Meshullam and,Shabbethai
These are the names of two men.
10:15 It is unclear why these four people opposed the plan. Perhaps they wanted a stricter penalty, or perhaps they or members of their families did not want to divorce their foreign wives. That there were only four dissenters shows the overwhelming support the policy had gained among the rest of the exiles. Sadly, a few years later, a similar problem of intermarriage with pagan wives created another crisis within the community (Neh 9–10).
OET (OET-LV) only Yōnātān/(Jonathan) the_son_of ˊAsāhʼēl and_Jahzeiah the_son_of Tiqvāh they_stood on this and_Məshullām and_Shabtay the_Lēviyyiy supported_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.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.