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OET (OET-LV) That they_will_be offering soothing_offerings to_god the_heavens and_pray for_life_of Oh/the_king and_sons_of_his.
Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-logic-goal
דִּֽי־לֶהֱוֺ֧ן מְהַקְרְבִ֛ין נִיחוֹחִ֖ין לֶאֱלָ֣הּ שְׁמַיָּ֑א וּמְצַלַּ֕יִן לְחַיֵּ֥י מַלְכָּ֖א וּבְנֽוֹהִי
that/who they_may_be offer_~_sacrifices pleasing to=god the=heavens and,pray for,life_of Oh/the=king and,sons_of,his
In this phrase, Darius explains the purpose for which he is commanding the actions described in the previous part of this sentence, in 6:9. If you decided to break that verse into three sentences, you can make this verse a fourth sentence of its own. If it would be natural in your language, introduce this sentence with a term to indicate that Darius is explaining his purpose here. Alternate translation: “that way, the priests can continually offer sweet-smelling sacrifices to the God who rules in heaven and pray that God will preserve my life and the life of my sons.”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
נִיחוֹחִ֖ין
pleasing
The primary idea is that these sacrifices will be pleasing to God, regardless of how they actually smell. Alternate translation: “pleasing sacrifices”
לֶאֱלָ֣הּ שְׁמַיָּ֑א
to=god the=heavens
See how you translated this expression in 5:11. Alternate translation: “the God who rules in heaven”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / 123person
לְחַיֵּ֥י מַלְכָּ֖א וּבְנֽוֹהִי
for,life_of Oh/the=king and,sons_of,his
Darius speaks of himself here in the third person. If that would be confusing in your language, you could use the first person. Alternate translation: “that God will preserve my life and the life of my sons”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche
לְחַיֵּ֥י מַלְכָּ֖א וּבְנֽוֹהִי
for,life_of Oh/the=king and,sons_of,his
The king is speaking of the quality of his life and that of his sons, not just that they will live. Alternate translation: “that all will be well for me and my sons”
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
וּבְנֽוֹהִי
and,sons_of,his
Here, sons could mean one of two things. (1) It could be literal and mean the biological sons of King Darius. (2) It could be figurative and mean descendants, specifically those whom Darius hoped would succeed him on the throne. As the note to 4:15 explains, the Persian kings spoke of predecessor kings as their “fathers,” so they may also have spoken of successor kings as their “sons.” Alternate translation: “his successors”
6:10 pray for the welfare of the king and his sons: In the Cyrus Cylinder (a Persian account of Cyrus’s defeat of Babylon), King Cyrus requests, “May all the gods whom I have resettled in their sacred cities ask [the Babylonian gods] Bel and Nebo daily for a long life for me” (see 1:1-4).
OET (OET-LV) That they_will_be offering soothing_offerings to_god the_heavens and_pray for_life_of Oh/the_king and_sons_of_his.
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.