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OET (OET-LV) And_he/it_said to_Abram certainly_(know) you_will_know if/because_that a_sojourner it_will_be your(ms)_seed/fruit in_land [which]_not to/for_them and_be_enslaved_them and_oppressed DOM_them four hundred(s) year[s].
OET (OET-RV) and Yahweh said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that doesn’t belong to them, and they will serve the rulers of that land and those rulers will persecute them for 400 years.
Note 1 topic: writing-quotations
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר לְאַבְרָ֗ם
and=he/it_said to,Abram
Alternate translation: “Then Yahweh said to Abram”
יָדֹ֨עַ תֵּדַ֜ע כִּי
to_know you_know that/for/because/then/when
Alternate translation: “You can be sure that”
זַרְעֲךָ֗
your(ms)=seed/fruit
See how you translated this phrase in verse 5.
גֵ֣ר יִהְיֶ֣ה
aliens will_belong
The word strangers refers to people who live temporarily in a city, country, or region, but they do not settle there permanently. Alternate translation: “will live as sojourners”
לֹ֣א לָהֶ֔ם
not to/for=them
Alternate translation: “that is not their home”
Note 2 topic: writing-pronouns
וַעֲבָד֖וּם
and,be_enslaved,them
Consider whether or not it is better in your language to begin a new sentence here. Also, make sure that your translation of these pronouns clearly communicates who is being referred to. Alternate translation: “They will serve the people in that land as slaves,” or “They will be slaves for the people who live in that land”
Note 3 topic: writing-pronouns
וְעִנּ֣וּ אֹתָ֑ם
and,oppressed DOM=them
Notice that here the pronoun they refers to the people who were living in the country where Abram’s descendants will be sojourning and them refers to Abram’s descendants. Make sure that is clear in your translation. Alternate translation: “and those people will oppress them” or “and those people will treat them badly”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / infostructure
אַרְבַּ֥ע מֵא֖וֹת שָׁנָֽה
four hundreds year
This phrase refers to how long Abram’s descendants would live in a land that is not theirs, not how long they would be oppressed, which was less than half of those 400 years. To make that clear in your translation, you could move this phrase earlier and say: “I want you to know that for 400 years your offspring/descendants will live in a land/country that is not their own, and the people of that country will oppress them.” Alternate translation: “for a period of 400 years.”
15:13 oppressed: The same word is used in Exod 1:11-12. Egypt, like predatory birds (Gen 15:11), would try to destroy Israel and hinder the covenant’s fulfillment.
• Apparently 400 years is a round number (also Acts 7:6; cp. Exod 12:40; Gal 3:17). Using the chronology in the Hebrew text, the family moved to Egypt around 1876 BC, and the Exodus occurred around 1446 BC (though many scholars date the Exodus later, around 1270 BC; see Exodus Book Introduction, “The Date of the Exodus”).
OET (OET-LV) And_he/it_said to_Abram certainly_(know) you_will_know if/because_that a_sojourner it_will_be your(ms)_seed/fruit in_land [which]_not to/for_them and_be_enslaved_them and_oppressed DOM_them four hundred(s) year[s].
OET (OET-RV) and Yahweh said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that doesn’t belong to them, and they will serve the rulers of that land and those rulers will persecute them for 400 years.
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.