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OET (OET-LV) then we_asked to_elders_the these as_follows we_said to_them[fn][fn] who did_he_make to_you_all a_decree temple_the this to_rebuild and_structure_the this to_finish.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / quotemarks
מַן־שָׂ֨ם לְכֹ֜ם טְעֵ֗ם בַּיְתָ֤א דְנָה֙ לְמִבְנְיָ֔ה וְאֻשַּׁרְנָ֥א דְנָ֖ה לְשַׁכְלָלָֽה
who gave to,you_all decree temple,the this(ms) to,rebuild and,structure,the this(ms) to,finish
This is a quotation within a quotation. That is, the book is quoting from the letter that Tattenai and his associates sent to King Darius, and within that letter, they are quoting what they asked the Jewish elders. It may be helpful to your readers to indicate this by setting off these words within secondary quotation marks or with whatever other punctuation or convention your language uses to indicate a quotation within a quotation.
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism
מַן־שָׂ֨ם לְכֹ֜ם טְעֵ֗ם בַּיְתָ֤א דְנָה֙ לְמִבְנְיָ֔ה וְאֻשַּׁרְנָ֥א דְנָ֖ה לְשַׁכְלָלָֽה
who gave to,you_all decree temple,the this(ms) to,rebuild and,structure,the this(ms) to,finish
See how you translated this question in 5:3. The phrases build this house and complete this structure refer to the same action, not different actions. The officials say essentially the same thing twice for emphasis. If that would be confusing for your readers, you could say it once and provide emphasis in a different way. Alternate translation: “Who said that you could build a large temple such as this”
5:6-17 Ezra includes a copy in Aramaic of Tattenai’s letter to King Darius. Unlike the letter of 4:11-16, this letter was a straightforward inquiry into the validity of the Jews’ activity.
OET (OET-LV) then we_asked to_elders_the these as_follows we_said to_them[fn][fn] who did_he_make to_you_all a_decree temple_the this to_rebuild and_structure_the this to_finish.
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.