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Ezra C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10
Ezra 4 V1 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22 V23 V24
OET (OET-LV) And_approached (to) Zərubāⱱel and_near/to the_heads_of the_families and_they_said to/for_them let_us_build with_you_all if/because like we_seek to_god_of_your_all’s and_to[fn] we [have_been]_sacrificing since_days_of ʼĒşar- ḩaddōn the_king_of ʼAshshūr the_brought DOM_us here.
4:2 Variant note: ו/לא: (x-qere) ’וְ/ל֣/וֹ’: lemma_c/l n_0.1.2.0 morph_HC/R/Sp3ms id_15ozy וְ/ל֣/וֹ
OET (OET-RV) so they went to Zerubavel and to the other clan leaders and they said to them, “Let us help you with the building work, because like you, we worship your God and we’ve been sacrificing to him since the days of the Assyrian king Esar-Haddon—the one who sent us here.”
Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result
וַיִּגְּשׁ֨וּ
and,approached
The word So indicates that the sentence it introduces explains the results of what the previous sentence described. Alternate translation: “As a result, they went”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / go
וַיִּגְּשׁ֨וּ
and,approached
Use the motion verb that is most natural in your language. Alternate translation: “So they went”
Note 3 topic: translate-names
זְרֻבָּבֶ֜ל
Zərubāⱱel
Zerubbabel is the name of a man. See how you translated it in 2:2.
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis
רָאשֵׁ֣י הָֽאָב֗וֹת
heads_of the,families
As in 1:5 and elsewhere in the book, this is an abbreviated way of saying “the heads of father’s houses.” Alternate translation: “the clan leaders”
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
וַיֹּאמְר֤וּ לָהֶם֙ נִבְנֶ֣ה עִמָּכֶ֔ם
and=they_said to/for=them let_us_build with,you_all
Since the book says in the previous verse that these people were enemies of the Jews, the implication is that they were not sincere when they claimed that they wanted to help build the temple. Instead, they were probably looking for a way to hinder the building project from within. The Jewish leaders refused their offer, and that suggests that they themselves suspected that these people were insincere. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could say something like that explicitly. Alternate translation: “and attempting to deceive the Jews, they said to them, ‘We would like to help you build the temple’”
Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
נִדְר֖וֹשׁ לֵֽאלֹהֵיכֶ֑ם
seek to,God_of,your_all's
Here, seek is an idiom that means to worship and pray to God or a god. Alternate translation: “we worship your God”
Note 7 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
מִימֵי֙ אֵסַ֤ר חַדֹּן֙
since,days_of ʼĒşar- -ḩaddōn
The term days is used here to refer a particular period of time. Alternate translation: “since the time of Esarhaddon”
Note 8 topic: translate-names
אֵסַ֤ר חַדֹּן֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ אַשּׁ֔וּר
ʼĒşar- -ḩaddōn king ʼAshshūr
Esarhaddon is the name of a man, and Assyria is the name of his kingdom.
Note 9 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
הַמַּעֲלֶ֥ה אֹתָ֖נוּ פֹּֽה
the,brought DOM,us here
These men say that Esarhaddon brought them up to this land because it is mountainous and, as 4:9 indicates, their ancestors formerly lived in lowland areas. Alternate translation: “the one who brought us here”
4:2 King Esarhaddon of Assyria (680–669 BC) had deported the people of Israel to foreign lands and had relocated other conquered peoples to the land of Israel during the reign of King Manasseh in Judah. These foreigners had learned about the Lord when they entered the land of Israel but had also continued to worship their old gods (2 Kgs 17:27-34, 40-41).
OET (OET-LV) And_approached (to) Zərubāⱱel and_near/to the_heads_of the_families and_they_said to/for_them let_us_build with_you_all if/because like we_seek to_god_of_your_all’s and_to[fn] we [have_been]_sacrificing since_days_of ʼĒşar- ḩaddōn the_king_of ʼAshshūr the_brought DOM_us here.
4:2 Variant note: ו/לא: (x-qere) ’וְ/ל֣/וֹ’: lemma_c/l n_0.1.2.0 morph_HC/R/Sp3ms id_15ozy וְ/ל֣/וֹ
OET (OET-RV) so they went to Zerubavel and to the other clan leaders and they said to them, “Let us help you with the building work, because like you, we worship your God and we’ve been sacrificing to him since the days of the Assyrian king Esar-Haddon—the one who sent us here.”
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.