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OET (OET-LV) Come_now let_us_go_down and_let_us_confuse there their_language that not they_will_hear each the_language his/its_neighbour.
OET (OET-RV) Come on then, let’s go down and confuse their language so that they won’t be able to understand each other’s words.”
הָ֚בָה
come=now!
Alternate translation: “So come on,”
נֵֽרְדָ֔ה & שָׁ֖ם
let_us_descend & there
Most Bible scholars think the plural pronoun us refers here to God and the fact that he is three Persons in one God. So it is best to keep this plural pronoun in your translation. See what you did for similar pronouns in Gen 1:26. Alternate translation: “let us go to them”
וְנָבְלָ֥ה & שְׂפָתָ֑ם
and=let_us_confuse & their=language
Alternate translation: “and scramble their language”
אֲשֶׁר֙ לֹ֣א יִשְׁמְע֔וּ
which/who not they_will_understand
Alternate translation: “so that they will not be able to understand” or “so that they cannot understand”
11:7 Come, let’s go down: God addresses his angelic court (see 1:26; 3:22; and study notes).
• won’t be able to understand each other: Their inability to communicate would curtail their unified sinful ambition. The God-honoring unity of language on the day of Pentecost was a symbolic reversal of the Babel dispersion (Acts 2:5-13; see Zeph 3:9).
OET (OET-LV) Come_now let_us_go_down and_let_us_confuse there their_language that not they_will_hear each the_language his/its_neighbour.
OET (OET-RV) Come on then, let’s go down and confuse their language so that they won’t be able to understand each other’s words.”
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.