OET interlinear EZRA 8:30

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result

וְ⁠קִבְּלוּ֙ הַ⁠כֹּהֲנִ֣ים וְ⁠הַ⁠לְוִיִּ֔ם

(Some words not found in UHB: and,they_took the,priests and,the,Levites weighed_out_of of,the_silver and,the,gold and,the,vessels to=bring to,Jerusalem to,the_house_of our_God_of,our )

The word So indicates that the sentence it introduces explains the results of what the previous sentence described. Alternate translation: [In keeping with what Ezra told them, the priests and the Levites took]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

מִשְׁקַ֛ל הַ⁠כֶּ֥סֶף וְ⁠הַ⁠זָּהָ֖ב וְ⁠הַ⁠כֵּלִ֑ים

(Some words not found in UHB: and,they_took the,priests and,the,Levites weighed_out_of of,the_silver and,the,gold and,the,vessels to=bring to,Jerusalem to,the_house_of our_God_of,our )

Here Ezra is describing the money and the objects by reference to something associated with them, their weight, which was what determined their value. Alternate translation: [the silver and the gold and the objects]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom

וְ⁠קִבְּלוּ֙ הַ⁠כֹּהֲנִ֣ים וְ⁠הַ⁠לְוִיִּ֔ם מִשְׁקַ֛ל הַ⁠כֶּ֥סֶף וְ⁠הַ⁠זָּהָ֖ב וְ⁠הַ⁠כֵּלִ֑ים

(Some words not found in UHB: and,they_took the,priests and,the,Levites weighed_out_of of,the_silver and,the,gold and,the,vessels to=bring to,Jerusalem to,the_house_of our_God_of,our )

The phrase received the weight means that these men, after observing the silver and gold and objects that Ezra weighed out to them (8:26–27), accepted responsibility for the full amount of it according to the charge that Ezra had just given them. Alternate translation: [So the priests and the Levites accepted full responsibility for all of the silver and the gold and the objects]

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / exclusive

אֱלֹהֵֽי⁠נוּ

our_God_of,our

In this case, Ezra is using our in the inclusive sense, that is, it includes the reader, since he is reporting his trip to fellow believers in God. Alternate translation: [the God to whom we all belong]